Prof. Dr. Yang Li is an associate professor of statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Florida Atlantic University. Previously, he held positions at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He received his BS in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2001, a PhD in Physics from the University of Minnesota in 2006, and a PhD in Statistics from Iowa State University in 2013. His research interests include spatial statistics, spatiotemporal processes, network analysis, machine learning, and statistical computing.