CV

Basics

Name Tao Li
Employment Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong
Email lastname.firstname@cityu.edu.hk
Phone (347) 725-7275
Url https://taoli-nyu.github.io
Google scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=SJ6h0nIAAAAJ
Orcid 0000-0001-8966-7239
Dblp https://dblp.org/pid/75/4601-46.html
Summary A researcher in the intersection of game theory, reinforcement learning, and control & optimization.

Work

  • 2025.09 - Present
    Assistant Professor
    City University of Hong Kong
    Joining the Department of Systems Engineering at CityU as an Assistant Professor.
    • Game Theory
    • Reinforcement Learning
    • Control & Optimization
    • Operations Research
  • 2025.05 - 2025.09
    Visiting Researcher
    IBM Research
    A short-term visit to IBM Research, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, collaborating with the Mathematical Sciences and Quantum Computing divisions.
    • Quantum Algorithm
    • Game Theory
  • 2024.07 - 2024.10
    Visiting Scholar
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    A short-term visit to Coordinated Science Lab. Collaborated with Prof. Tamer Başar on multi-agent learning in asymmetric information stochastic games.
    • Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
    • Information Structures
    • Stochastic Games
  • 2023.03 - Present
    Early Career Committee Chair
    IEEE Control System Society (CSS) Technical Committee on Security & Privacy
    Organizing activities at CSS flagship conferences to engage early-career researchers from multiple areas in control society and create a vibrant and sustainable research thrust dedicated to the security, privacy, and resiliency of the next-generation cyber-physical systems.
    • ACC 2024 NextG S&P Student Workshop
    • CSS Rising Star Online Symposium
  • 2018.09 - 2025.05
    Research Assistant & Associate Lab Director
    New York University
    Conducted reserach at NYU Center for Cybersecurity and managing LARX Lab. My reserach brings together game theory, machine leanring, and control to develope system-level solution for cyber resilience.
    • Game Theory
    • Reinforcement Learning
    • Control & Optimization
  • 2017.05 - 2017.10
    Undergrad Research Assistant
    University of Alberta
    Conducted research under Prof. Bin Han on applied and computational harmonic analysis with applications to image processing in the Deparment of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences.
    • Applied and Computation Harmonic Analysis
    • Wavelets and Famelets
    • Imaging Sciences

Education

  • 2018.09 - 2025.05

    New York, USA

    Doctor of Philosophy
    New York University
    Electrical and Computer Engineering
    • Game Theory
    • Reinforcement Learning
    • Control Theory
  • 2014.09 - 2018.07

    Fujian, China

    Bachelor of Science
    Xiamen University
    Mathematics, summa cum laude
    • Harmonic Analysis
    • Wavelets

Awards