Along with Bo Zhang of Tsinghua University and senior executives from Baidu, Wei Li was selected to co-lead China’s National Engineering Laboratory of Deep Learning. He is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and also president of Beihang University. Li has won numerous accolades and prizes for his technical contributions in artificial intelligence and network computing.

Li graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics of Beijing University and received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh.