Heng Li is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, at Central South University (CSU). Before joining CSU, he was a research assistant in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Victoria, Canada. His research interest is focused on battery management systems, big data analysis of electric vehicles, energy management of electric vehicles and smart grids, and cooperative control of heavy haul trains. He was the recipient of the Best Thesis Award from Central South University and Hunan Province in 2018 and 2019, respectively. In 2020, he won the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Award and China Railway Academy Science and Technology Award. he received the Best Paper Award of ICIVIS 2021.