Patrick Dai biography: 13 things about Pittsford, New York man who attended Cornell University

Patrick Dai is an Asian-American man who grew up in Pittsford, Monroe County, New York, United States. He is Bing Liu‘s son.

While attending Cornell University in Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, Dai worked as an undergraduate consultant, helping to tutor other engineering students with the computer programming language matrix laboratory (MATLAB). His father is an optics professor teaching at Tianjin University in Tianjin, China and a former teacher at the University of Rochester in Rochester, Monroe County.

According to Liu, Dai’s mental struggles may have been exacerbated by the earlier isolation of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In 2021, he sank into a deep depression, his parents told the New York Post.

In the spring of 2022 and 2023, Dai took off two semesters from his studies at the suggestion of a doctor, according to his parents. He was prescribed the anti-depressant Lexapro, which is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI).

Dai is 5’11” tall and his registered weight is 185 pounds. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. He has a younger brother born in 2008.
2. In May 2020, he graduated from Pittsford-Mendon High School in Pittsford. He was named one of five National Merit Scholars at the school.
3. In August 2020, he entered Cornell University to pursue a bachelor’s degree in engineering.
4. From October 2020 to April 2021, he was a safety officer at Cornell University’s Science Olympiad.
5. From January 2021 to February 2021, he was a Cornell Campus Engagement winter orientation leader.
6. From February 2021 to September 2022, he was a CS 1112 consultant at Cornell University.
7. From March 2021 to February 2022, he was Cornell Campus Engagement orientation supervisor.
8. From April 2021 to February 2022, he was the director of logistics of Cornell University’s Science Olympiad.
9. On October 28, 2023, he wrote on Cornell University’s section of the online discussion site Greekrank, “if you see a jewish “person” on campus follow them home and slit their throats. rats need to be eliminated from cornell”.
10. On October 29, 2023, he wrote on Cornell University’s section of Greekrank, “gonna shoot up 104 west. allahu akbar! from the river to the sea, palestine will be free! glory to hamas! liberation by any means necessary”.
11. On October 31, 2023, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrested him at his apartment in Ithaca with the help of the Cornell University Police Department and the Ithaca Police Department. He was charged with posting threats to kill or injure another using interstate communications. He was booked into the Broome County Jail in Binghamton, Broome County, New York.
12. On November 1, 2023. he made his initial appearance in federal court in Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York before a U.S. Magistrate Judge. He was ordered held without bail and transferred to the custody of the U.S. Marshals.
13. He was 21 years old when his mother told the Democrat and Chronicle on November 6, 2023 that the media has not given a full picture of him. Represented by Lisa Peebles, he will be back in court on November 15, 2023,