Qingchao Li received the B.Eng. degree from the University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China, in 2017, the M.S. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China, Heifei, China, in 2020, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K., in 2024 under the University of Southampton-Interdigital Communications Inc. Fully Funded Scholarship. He was a Research Fellow with the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton. Now, he is an Associate Professor with the School of Electronic Information Engineering, Beihang University. His research interests include reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, holographic MIMO and non-terrestrial wireless networks. He was the recipient of Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Student Abroad in 2022, University of Southampton Doctoral College Research Award in 2023, and Exemplary Reviewer Certificate of IEEE Wireless Communications Letters in 2024.
