Dr. Ruiqi Li is currently an Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Beihang Valencia Polytechnic Institute and Hangzhou International Innovation Institute, Beihang University. He got his Bachelor degree in Computer Science at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He obtained his PhD degree in Systems Science at Beijing Normal University, and was a visiting PhD at Department of Civil Environmental Engineering at MIT, and a visiting scholar at Department of Physics at Boston University. His main research interests cover and complex network, urban science, and low-altitude economy. 

He has published more than twenty peer-reviewed papers, including on Nature Communications, Communications Physics, Cities, Chaos, RESS, Neural Networks, Social Networks, Physical Review E, with a total citation more than 1700. He serves as steering committee of Conference on Complex Systems, council member of Complex Systems Society, and also serves as an Associate Editor for Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, Scientific Reports, PLoS Complex Systems, leading Guest Editor in Journal Physics: Complexity, and Entropy. He is also reviewers for some SCI and SSCI journals and top conferences, including Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Cities, Nature Communications, PNAS Nexus, Cities, Expert Systems with Applications, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Habitat International, PLoS Computational Biology, Habitat International, IEEE TNSE, IEEE TCSS, TheWebConf (WWW).