Gang Li, a professor at the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Northwest University, is also the director of Spatiotemporal Big Data Joint Lab, chief expert of the Human-Environment Interaction and Spatial Security Team, the founding president of Cyrus Tang Society at Northwest University. He has received his bachelor's and doctoral degrees in geography from Lanzhou University, and conducted visiting scholar or postdoctoral research at the UNC-Chapel Hill, USA, Uni-Graz, Austria, and Uni-Heidelberg, Germany. He was selected for the talent programs of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Cyrus Tang Foundation. He serves as deputy director of the Youth Working Committee of the Geographical Society of China, deputy director of the Population Resources Specialty Committee of the China Natural Resources Society, deputy secretary-general of the Disaster History Specialty Committee of the China Disaster Prevention Association. He is an editorial board member of the International Journal of Criminology and Sociology and the Journal of Palaeogeography. His research fields consist of illicit mobility and social governance, urban regeneration and tourism transformation, spatiotemporal intelligence and computational sociology. He has published over 140 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, delivered over 30 keynote speeches or invited lectures at academic conferences or institutions, won over 20 teaching and research awards, received over 10 media interviews.