He graduated from School of Mathematical Science, Peking University on 1997 and 2000, and got his bachelor and master degree, respectively. After finishing his Ph.D. study and obtaining his doctoral degree in 2004 at School of Economics, Erasmus University of Rotterdam (the Netherlands), Prof. Li moved to University of Bern (Switzerland) and worked as a post-doctoral and research assistant at Department of Statistics. Then he joined in FDSM in 2008. Prof. Li’s research is on statistics of extremes, and he has already published several papers on the top journals such as Annals of Statistics, Journal of American Statistical Association, Econometric Theory and etc. Prof. Li had 2 grants from NNSFC and 1 grant from SEM, and he visited several times CUHK, GIT, NCSU, and MIT Sloan.