Dr Xi Li is a Professor of College of Computer Science and Technology at Zhejiang University, and the Deputy Dean of Shanghai Institute for Advanced Study of ZhejiangUniversity (SIAS).

He is an IET Fellow and an IEEE Senior Member, and  the winner of Zhejiang Provincial Science Foundation for Outstanding Young Scholars. Dr. Li was appointed as a distinguished expert of the Zhejiang Province government. He also served as a council member of the China Image and Graphics Society.

Professor Li obtains a wealth of academic experience in serving as program committee members of top conferences (e.g., NIPS, ICML, CVPR, ICCV) or reviewers of premier journals (e.g., IEEE TPAMI, IJCV, IEEE TIP). Besides, he made several invited talks at well-known conferences (i.e., RACV 2016, ICSW 2017, ICDS2017, IEEE FMT 2018).

He focuses his research on the AI fields of computer vision and machine learning, and has published approximately 150 top conferences and leading journal papers with about 4600 Google Scholar citations. He devoted his efforts to enabling many academic roles in conference organization (e.g., PRCV2019 AC, ICPR 2018 AC, IJCAI 2019 SPC, and ICCV 2019 AC, CVPR 2020AC, ICPR 2020 AC) and journal editorial management (e.g., AEs of IEEETNNLS, IEEE TCSVT, Neurocomputing, and Neural Processing Letters). He has won two Best International Conference Paper Awards (including ACCV2010 and DICTA 2012), an ICIP 2015 Top 10% Conference Paper Award, and an ACML 2017 Best Student Paper Award. In addition, he won two China Natural Science and Technology Awards (including first-class and second-class prizes) and a Chinese Patent Excellence Award.