Dr. Li is the Director of Digital Imaging Group (DIG) of London, an associate professor in the department of medical imaging and medical biophysics at the University of Western Ontario and a scientist at the Lawson Health Research Institute. Before this position, he was a research scientist and project manager in general electric (GE) healthcare for 9 years. He funds and directs the DIG (http://digitalimaginggroup.ca/) since 2006, which is a highly dynamic and multiple disciplinary group. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Concordia University 2006, where his Ph.D. thesis won the doctoral prize giving to the most deserving graduating student in the faculty of engineering and computer science. He has published over 100 publications; He is the recipient of several GE internal awards, and he serves as guest editor and associate editor in several prestigious journals in the field. Dr. Li also serves as a program committee member in highly influential conferences; and he is the editor of six books. His current interest is development intelligent analytic tools to help physicians and hospital administrative to handle the big medical data, centered with medical images.
