Yongfu Li is currently a Professor of Control Science and Engineering, Computer Science and Technology, and Information and Communication Engineering with Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CQUPT) and Director of Key Laboratory of Intelligent Air-Ground Cooperative Control for Universities in Chongqing, Co-Director of the Center for Transportation Internet of Things of Chongqing. He is also the Associate Director of the Institute for Intelligent Transportation and Connected Vehicles, CQUPT. His research interests include intelligent transportation systems, connected and autonomous vehicles, and control theory.

Dr. Li has served as a member of Technical Committee on Vehicle Control and Intelligence of Chinese Association of Automation (CAA). He has been an editorial board member of the International Journal of Intelligent Transportation System Research.