Wanqing Li is a full Professor in the School of Computing and Information Technology and the Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences at the University of Wollongong. He takes/took a visiting researcher and professorship at Microsoft Research in Redmond USA, Chinese Academy of Science. Previously, he worked as a Principle Researcher at Motorola Research Laboratory and an Associate Professor in the Zhejiang University. He obtained his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science from Zhejiang University and his PhD from The University of Western Australia.

He mainly applies statistics and mathematics to spatial-temporal data analytics and his research interest spread across machine learning, pattern recognition, computer vision, neural networks, multimedia, image processing, video surveillance and their application to health. He pioneered in 2010 and nurtured in the subsequent years the research of understanding human activities from 3D data, one of the most popular research topics now in computer vision and machine learning. His research results have expounded in one book and 180+ publications at prestigious journals and prominent conferences, such as TIP, IJCV, TNNLS, TCSVT, TMM, CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, IJCAI and ACM MM. His publications have been cited in Google Scholar over 5500, his H-Index is 36 (all) and 33 (since 2015) in Google Scholar, 30 in Scopus. The highest citations of a single paper is 1250+ in Google Scholar.

He received the 2005 K. C. WONG Education Foundation Award through Chinese Academy of Sciences. He led a team to win 2^nd place on the Isolated Gesture Recognition, 3^rd place on Continuous Gesture Recognition in the 2016 ChaLearn LAP Large-scale Continuous Gesture Recognition Challenges, 2^nd place on Continuous Gesture Recognition in the 2017 ChaLearn LAP Large-scale Continuous Gesture Recognition Challenges, 1^st place 2017 Large Scale 3D Human Activity Analysis Challenge in Depth Videos. As a co-author and and project leader, his paper won the 2015 Australian Pattern Recognition Society Best Paper Award in DICTA 2015.

He provides excellent supervision to research students and and visiting research fellows. His PhD student won the 2018 best PhD student thesis award of Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, the Extraordinary Potential Prize of 2013 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, and highly commended in Canon Extreme Imaging Competition 2014. He has worked with and supervised 10+ international visiting professors/research fellow during their visit with the Advanced Multimedia Research Lab (AMRL).

He was a guest editor of special issues of IJCV and JVCI, and is curerently an Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), IEEE Trans. Multimedia (TMM) and Journal of Visual Communications and Image Representation (JVCI). He won the 2018 Outstanding Service to JVCI and its Community. He edited 2 books and is/was invited to author the entry of Activity Recognition for Springer’s Computer Vision: A Reference Guide. He has chaired many conferences, workshops, and special sessions. He served numerous conferences as an Area Chair, Meta-Reviewers and member of Technical Program Committee (TPC). He was recognized as an Outstanding Area Chair for 2019 IEEE ICME. He will serve as TPC Co-Chair of IEEE ICME 2021.

He is a Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He was the Vice Chair for Asia-Pacific of the Multimedia Technical Committee (MMTC), IEEE Communication Society and a full member of the prestigious Multimedia Signal Processing technical committee (MMSP-TC), IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is/was an executive member of the MMTC IEEE Communication Society and Co-chair of the 3D Rendering, Processing and Communications Interest Group of the MMTC. He is currently a member of the Steering Committee for IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, a flagship conference sponsored jointly by IEEE Computer Society, Single Processing Society, Communication Society and Circuit and System Society.