Senior Lecturer in Computer Science

A highly educated academic with over 35 years of research and teaching experience in 4 British Universities and 2 Chinese Universities. His research interests include Data Science, Distributed AI, Knowledge Engineering (KE), Agent and Multi-agent Systems, Grid Computing and HCI.

He has published over 80 Journal and Conference papers. He has served as a number of academic journal editors and international conference technical committee members. He has obtained over 200K fundings from government and industry.

He has supervised two PhD students to completion and three PhD students on going and over 30 master students. He has taught modules include AI, Disruptive Technologies, Big Data Analytics, Semi-structured Databases, and Technologies for e-Commerce for both UG and PG levels. He has published a textbook in title of "Foundation for Big Data Analytics: Concepts, Technologies, Methods and Business" (ISBN: 978-7-03-058148-8).

He has wide industrial connections and worked with IBM, Oracle and Microsoft, Baidu and iFlyTek, etc. He has extensive experience in consulting and application development using Data Engineering, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Knowledge Graphs in the fields of business, industry, finance and governments.

Qualifications

• B.Sc. in Software Engineering, 1983, Northwest Polytechnic University, China
• M.Sc. (equivalent), Distributed AI, 1994, University of York, UK
• PhD. In Informatics, 1999, Open University, UK

Teaching

• Big Data Analytics
• AI, Machine Learning
• Semi-structured Database
• Technologies for Ecommerce
• Disruptive Technology

Research Areas

• Data Science
• Big Data
• Machine Learning
• Web Science
• NLP
• Knowledge Engineering

Publications

List of publications

Professional Membership

• IEEE
• IEEE Computer Society

PhD Supervision

• 2 Completions and 3 on-going

Contact Details

T: +44 (0)1582 743986
E: gangmin.li@beds.ac.uk