Kai Li received the B.E. degree from Shandong University, China, in 2009, the M.S. degree from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, in 2014. From 2014 to 2016, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at The SUTD-MIT International Design Centre, The Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore. He was a visiting research assistant at ICT Centre, CSIRO, Australia (2012-2013). From 2010 to 2011, he was a research assistant in Mobile Technologies Centre with The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

He is currently a research scientist at CISTER Research Unit at ISEP/IPP. His research interests include vehicular communications and security, Cyber-Physical Systems, human sensing systems, resource allocation optimization, wireless sensor networks and UAV networks.

Kai is an IEEE Senior Member, and a member of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. He has been serving as Associate Editor of IEEE Access Journal since 2018.