Lei Li (SM'17) received his Bachelor's degree in information and computational science from Jilin University, Changchun, China, in 2004, his Master's degree in applied mathematics from the Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada, in 2006, and his Ph.D. degree in computing from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, in 2012.

He is currently an Associate Professor of computer science and technology at Key Laboratory of Knowledge Engineering with Big Data (Hefei University of Technology), Ministry of Education, China, Intelligent Interconnected Systems Laboratory of Anhui Province (Hefei University of Technology), Hefei, China, and School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China. His research interests include data mining, social computing and graph computing.