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Li Hongyi (Chinese: 李宏毅, born 26 June 1998) is a Chinese actor and singer. He is best known for his roles in the dramas Master Devil Do Not Kiss Me (2017), My Love from the Ocean (2018), Love Better Than Immortality (2019), Prodigy Healer (2019), The Blood of Youth (2022–2023), and Wulin Heroes (2023).
- Background
- National Service
- Career
- Media Coverage
- Other Newsworthy Incidents
Early life & family
Li Hongyi was born on 1 May 1987 to Lee Hsien Loong and Ho Ching. He is the younger half-brother of Li Yipeng and Li Xiuqi, the older brother of Li Haoyi and the grandson of the late Lee Kuan Yew. He is also the cousin of Li Shengwu and Li Huanwu.
Education
Li Hongyi attended Rosyth Primary School and was enrolled in the Gifted Education Programme. He then attended Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) for his secondary education. After which he was a student at Raffles Junior College from 2004 to 2006. In 2006, he attained the Lee Kuan Yew Award for Mathematics and Science, as well as a Public Service Commission (PSC) Overseas Merit Scholarship.Being a recipient of this scholarship, he was allowed to disrupt his national service to pursue his univ...
Upon completing junior college in 2006, Li Hongyi served his mandatory national service. He was commissioned as an officer at the SAFTI Military Institute.
Early career
After graduating from MIT in 2011, Li Hongyi went on to work at Google USA where was the product lead for Image Search user interaction (UI). His efforts in redesigning Google's image search led to the largest ever increase in image views per day.He returned to Singapore in 2013 to fulfil his government scholarship bond at the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) as a consultant, and subsequently at GovTech (Government Technology Agency of Singapore).
GovTech - Director of Open Government Products
In January 2018, Li Hongyi was promoted to deputy director at GovTech. A year later, he founded and became the director of Open Government Products; a unit within GovTech where his team of software engineers and designers build technological products to improve the efficiency of government agencies. In an interview with The Independent News, Li Hongyi shared that he does not require his team to produce weekly reports or presentations, having them note their achievements in bullet points inste...
Icecreammap.sg
According to Li Hongyi’s Facebook post on 23 October 2021, this map was “a fun side project”. True to its name, the interactive mapincludes descriptions of each ice cream place, reviews as well as personal recommendations from Li Hongyi himself.
Interview with Lianhe Zaobao
On 21st March 2022, local Chinese-language newspaper Lianhe Zaobao conducted an interview with Li Hongyi, asking questions about him entering politics, as well as regarding attracting tech talents to work in public service.According to him, the main issue he is trying to solve is to get the “best people to work on the most important problems”. When asked about who he considers to be the “best people”, Li Hongyi highlighted that his judgement goes beyond intelligence, and he considers a more h...
The Silicon Valley Podcast
In an episode of The Silicon Valley Podcast with Shawn Flynn, Li Hongyi talks about his early career in Google USA and his role as a director in GovTech, as well as how technology helps government efficiency.
Breach of chain of command
In 2007, Li Hongyi, then a Second Lieutenant in the Singapore Armed Forces, made the news when he sent out a complaint via email to then-Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean and other senior military personnel about a colleague who had been absent without leave (AWOL) on several occasions.By doing so, he disobeyed the General Orders of the Singapore Armed Forces Act and was formally reprimanded and charged following a summary trial.
Lee Kuan Yew's Funeral
At his grandfather's funeral in 2015, Li Hongyi personally chose the portrait to be presented at the wake.He was also one of the family members to deliver a eulogy where he told a story of the only gift he received from his grandfather:
Allegations about entering politics
In June 2017, Li Hongyi’s aunt, Lee Wei Ling and his uncle, Lee Hsien Yang released a joint statement accusing Lee Hsien Loong and Ho Ching of bearing political ambitions for Hongyi. Lee Hsien Loong refuted the claim, saying that it was “absurd”.On 15 June 2017, Li Hongyi released a statement on Facebook, confirming that: “For what it is worth, I really have no interest in politics.”
Dr Hongyi Li is a Senior Lecturer at UNSW Business School and a PhD graduate from Harvard University. He has published several journal articles on topics such as relational communication, social norms, and firm productivity.
Hongyi Li. Director of OGP. I joined on March 31, 2017 and I am currently the Director of OGP . Some things I’ve done recently which I’m proud of are…. Set-up, scaled, and led OGP to deliver impact on public good! Edgar Ang. NEXT. Jia Hui Yap.
李宏毅 (Hung-yi Lee) is an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at National Taiwan University. He works on machine learning, spoken language understanding, and speech recognition, and has a YouTube channel on deep learning.
Hongyi Li. Senior Lecturer, UNSW School of Economics. Research interests: organizational economics. email: hongyi@hongyi.li.
Hongyi Li is a senior lecturer at UNSW's School of Economics. His working papers and publications cover topics such as network games, pecking order, regulation, and social norms.
