Meng Li is an Associate Professor and Dean Assistant at the School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology (HFUT), China. He is also a Post-Doc Researcher at Department of Mathematics and HIT Center, University of Padua, Italy, where he is with the Security and PRIvacy Through Zeal (SPRITZ) research group led by Prof. Mauro Conti (IEEE Fellow). He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology from the School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), China, in 2019. He was sponsored by ERCIM 'Alain Bensoussan' Fellowship Programme (from 2020.10.1 to 2021.3.31) to conduct Post-Doc research supervised by Prof. Fabio Martinelli at CNR, Italy. He was sponsored by China Scholarship Council (CSC) (from 2017.9.1 to 2018.8.31) for joint Ph.D. study supervised by Prof. Xiaodong Lin (IEEE Fellow) in the Broadband Communications Research (BBCR) Lab at University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. 

His research interests include security, privacy, applied cryptography, blockchain, and vehicular networks. In this area, he has published more than 60 papers in international peer-reviewed transactions, journals and conferences, including TIFS, TDSC, ToN, TKDE, TODS, TSC, TSG, TII, TVT, TNSM, TNSE, TGCN, COMST, MobiCom, ICICS, SecureComm, TrustCom, and IPCCC. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE TIFS, IEEE TNSM, and IEEE IoTJ.