Li Yang is currently an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Business and Information Technology at Ontario Tech University, and an Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Western University. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Western University in 2022. He is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII) and IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM). He was the vice chair of the IEEE Computer Society, London Section, Canada, from 2022 to 2023. He was also on the technical program committee for IEEE GlobeCom from 2023 to 2025, the workshop chair for SMC-IoT 2023, and the technical session chair for IEEE CCECE 2020. His paper and code publications have received thousands of Google Scholar citations and GitHub stars. His research interests include cybersecurity, machine learning, deep learning, AutoML, model optimization, network data analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), intrusion detection, anomaly detection, concept drift, continual learning, and adversarial machine learning. Li Yang is also included in Stanford University/Elsevier's List of the World's Top 2% Scientists. He was ranked among the world's Top 0.5% of researchers in 'Networking & Telecommunications' in 2024 and 2025. The IEEE Computer Society recognized him as one of the recipients of Computing's Top 30 Early Career Professionals for 2025.