Prof. Yun Li

IEEE Fellow

Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Study (SIAS), UESTC, China

Biography

Professor Yun Li FIEEE taught at University of Glasgow for 28 years, where he was recognized as the second Top Author and served as the founding Director of University of Glasgow Singapore.  Since 2021, he has been Director of Industrial Artificial Intelligence Centre at Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Study, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.  Prof Li has supervised doctoral students on “AI for Engineering” since 1992.  He has published over 300 papers and books, and holds over 20 patents in China, Europe, United States and Japan.  He has been funded over 20 million pounds to led or co-led over 30 research projects in the UK, EU, Singapore, and China, and currently leads 2 major research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China for the next-generation AI models and by the National Key R&D Program of China for the next-generation AI chips.