Before joining WPI, Dr. Li worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Computer Science and Engineering Department at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and worked as a researcher in HUAWEI Noah's Ark LAB at Hong Kong. He obtained two Ph.D. degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2013, and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2009. His broad research interests are in analyzing, understanding, and making sense of big data generated from various complex networks in many contexts, including urban computing, large-scale network data sampling, measurement, and cyber-physical systems. Dr. Li has interned in Bell Labs in New Jersey, Microsoft Research Asia, and HUAWEI research labs of America. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM.