Tianrui Li received his B.S. degree, M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree from the Southwest Jiaotong University, China in 1992, 1995 and 2002 respectively.  He was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK • CEN), Belgium from 2005-2006, a visiting professor at Hasselt University, Belgium in 2008,  the University of Technology Sydney, Australia in 2009 and the University of Regina, Canada in 2014. And, he is presently a Professor, Deputy Director of Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Deputy Director of National Engineering Laboratory of Integrated Transportation Big Data Application Technology, and the Director of the Key Lab of Cloud  Computing and Intelligent Technique of Sichuan Province, Southwest Jiaotong University, China. 

    Since 2000, he has co-edited 10 books, 13 special issues of international journals, 18 proceedings, received 18 Chinese invention patents and published over 500 research papers (e.g., Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing) in refereed journals and conferences (e.g., ACL, CVPR, ICCV, ICDE, ICML, IJCAI, KDD, UbiComp, WWW, ICDM, CIKM, EMNLP). 5 papers were ESI Hot Papers and 22 papers was ESI Highly Cited Papers. His Google H-index is 72 and citation more than 20,000. He was listed among  the “Highly Cited Chinese Researchers of 2020-2023” by Elsevier and the World’ Top 2% Scientists in the 2020-2023 list compiled by Stanford University.

    He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Human-Centric Intelligent Systems, area editor of International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, editors of Information Fusion and WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, etc. He has served as KDD2018 Media & Publicity Chair, KDD2017 Sponsor Chair, IEEE ICCC2015-2018 chairs, ICCCBDA2016-2023 co-chairs, ISKE2007-2023, CRSSC2015, CWI2014, JRS2012 program chairs,  IEEE HPCC 2015, GrC 2009 program vice chairs and RSKT2008, FLINS2010 organizing chairs, etc. and has been a reviewer for several leading academic journals. He is an IRSS fellow and steering committee chair (2019-2020, 2023-2024), an IEEE CIS Emergent Technologies Technical Committee member (2019-2020), an IEEE CIS Senior Members Committee member (2018-2020), an IEEE CIS ConfCom - Bids Sub-Committee member (2021-2022), a distinguished member of CCF, a senior member of ACM, IEEE, CAAI, ACM SIGKDD member, Chair of IEEE CIS Chengdu Chapter (2013-2017),  Treasurer (2016-2021) and Secretary (2022-) of ACM SIGKDD China Chapter and CCF YOCSEF Chengdu Chair (2013-2014). 

    Over seventy graduate students (including 9 Post-Docs, 35 Doctors) have been trained. Their employment units include Microsoft Research Asia, Alibaba DAMO Academy, Sichuan University, Huawei, JD.com, Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent. They have received 3 "Si Shi Yang Hua" Medals, Best Papers/Dissertation Awards 20 times, Champion of Sina Weibo Interaction-prediction at Tianchi Big Data Competition (Bonus 200,000 RMB), Second Place of Social Influence Analysis Contest of IJCAI-2016 Competitions and Second Place of Weather forecast Contest of AI Challenger 2018.