Robin Li Yanhong (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Li Yà nhóng; born 17 November 1968) is a Chinese computer scientist and internet entrepreneur.
He is the co-founder of the search engine Baidu, and one of the richest people in China, with a net worth of US$18.5 billion as of October 2017.
Li is a member of the 12th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
He also invented RankDex, the first web search engine with page-ranking and site-scoring algorithms, which inspired Google's PageRank algorithm.Li studied information management at Peking University and computer science at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
In 1996, he invented RankDex, the first web search engine with page-ranking and site-scoring algorithms.
In 2000, he founded Baidu with Eric Xu.
Li has been CEO of Baidu since January 2004.
The company was listed on NASDAQ on August 5, 2005.
Li was included as one of the 15 Asian Scientists To Watch by Asian Scientist Magazine on 15 May 2011.On August 29, 2014, Robin Li was appointed by the United Nations Secretary General, Mr.
Ban Ki-Moon, as co-chair of the Independent Expert Advisory Group on Data Revolution for Sustainable Development.