Chongshou Li is currently an associate professor at SWJTU-Leeds Joint School, Southwest Jiaotong University. Before joining SWJTU-Leeds, he has worked as Research  Assistant Professor at National University of Singapore (NUS) from March 2017 to Feburary  2021.   His research areas include data analytics, data mining and machine learning in general. Specifically, he has been recently working on hierarchical learning (HL), and solved problems of retail sales and demand forecasting, 3D point cloud based scene understanding, journals citation data analysis as well as vehicle routing optimization. His research works have been published in key journals like IEEE TITS, IEEE TIM, Omega, EJOR, ACM TKDD, TRE, JOG, JASIST, Scientometrics and important conferences such as IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)、ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM). In the end, he got his PhD degree from City University of Hong Kong in 2015 and Bachelor degree from Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2010.  All his published papers can be found at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pQsr70EAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao.