31.2304° N, 121.4737° E — AND COUNTING
Sigao Li
AI Product Manager · Spatial Data Scientist
From maps to models, and the products in between.
ACT I — GEOGRAPHY
43.6532° N, 79.3832° W · Toronto, 2018–2023
Points on a map
Six years of geographic analysis — mapping retail networks, public health and crime across the Toronto CMA, and learning that every location is a decision.
ACT II — BUSINESS
51.4545° N, 2.5879° W · Bristol, 2024–2025
Points on a chart
An MSc in Business Analytics, consulting with IBM on AI-driven financial analysis, and a growing pull toward quantitative finance.
ACT III — AI
31.2304° N, 121.4737° E · Shanghai, 2026—
Points in a network
Building AI products at Ebest Mobile — agents, LLM pipelines, and the systems that ship them. Three disciplines, one through-line: points, and the patterns between them.
ACT I — GEOGRAPHY
43.6532° N, 79.3832° W · Toronto, 2018–2023
Points on a map
Six years of geographic analysis — mapping retail networks, public health and crime across the Toronto CMA, and learning that every location is a decision.
ACT II — BUSINESS
51.4545° N, 2.5879° W · Bristol, 2024–2025
Points on a chart
An MSc in Business Analytics, consulting with IBM on AI-driven financial analysis, and a growing pull toward quantitative finance.
ACT III — AI
31.2304° N, 121.4737° E · Shanghai, 2026—
Points in a network
Building AI products at Ebest Mobile — agents, LLM pipelines, and the systems that ship them. Three disciplines, one through-line: points, and the patterns between them.
Selected work
Things I've built
Intelligent Email Agent
An LLM email copilot living in Feishu — summaries, translations, replies and memory in one interactive card.
~50% LLM wait time cut by parallel processing
AI GeoGISphere LLM Analysis
A multimodal LLM system that reads webpages, PDFs and screenshots to structure the world's GIS academic opportunities.
5 input source types unified
Geo BizGISphere Data Platform
From automation pipeline to BI dashboards and team KPIs — an end-to-end data product for a global volunteer organization.
80% task time reduced by the ETL pipeline
About
A geographer who ships
I'm an AI product manager with geospatial roots. My path runs from six years of geographic analysis in Toronto, through business analytics in Bristol — including consulting with IBM on AI-driven financial analysis — to building AI products at Ebest Mobile in Shanghai today. I serve as Director of GISource at GISphere, advancing GIS education worldwide, and I keep one foot in quantitative finance.
I hold an MSc in Business Analytics from the University of Bristol, a Master's in Spatial Analysis and a BA in Geographic Analysis from Toronto Metropolitan University, with professional certifications in AI (University of Toronto) and Data Science (University of Waterloo). When I'm not building, I'm usually behind a camera somewhere new — see Through My Lens.
