Tao Li

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Systems Engineering at City University of Hong Kong. I was a visiting researcher at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, collaborating with the Mathematical Sciences and Quantum Computing divisions in the summer of 2025. I earned my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from New York University, advised by Prof. Quanyan Zhu, where I also worked closely with Prof. Kaan Ozbay and Prof. Sundeep Rangan. My dissertation examines the triad of information, decision, and uncertainty in multi-agent learning. Prior to my doctoral studies, I conducted research in computational harmonic analysis under the supervision of Prof. Bin Han at the University of Alberta. I hold a B.S. in Mathematics, graduating summa cum laude from Xiamen University.

Research Overview

My research develops computational foundations of mulit-agent learning under complex information structures to achieve certified robustness and resilience in AI-integrated network systems across cyber, physical, and huamn layers. My recent research efforts focus on Agentic AI for Cyber-Physical Security and Resilience in Smart City.

My Erdős Number is 3

Paul Erdős (0) coauthored "On chagnes of signs in infinite series" (1978) with Charles K. Chui (1), who coauthored "A dual-chain approach for bottom–up construction of wavelet filters with any integer dilation" (2012) with Bin Han (2), who coauthored "Directional compactly supported box spline tight framelets with simple geometric structure" (2019) with me (3).