Li Li (M'17) received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, Anhui, China, in 2011 and 2016, respectively. He was a visiting assistant professor in University of Missouri-Kansas City from 2016 to 2020. He joined the department of electronic engineering and information science of USTC as a research fellow in 2020 and became a professor in 2022.

His main research interest is multimedia compression, including image, video, light field, and point cloud compression. He has authored or co-authored more than 80 papers in international journals and conferences including more than 40 IEEE/ACM Transaction papers, which were cited by more than 4000 times according to Google Scholar. He has more than 20 granted patents. He has more than 20 technique proposals adopted by standardization groups. He received the received the DAMO YOUNG FELLOW Award 2024 and IEEE Multimedia Rising Star 2023. He and his students won multiple image and video compression challenges in ICIP 2024, ISCAS 2023, and ICME 2016. He serves as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.