Researcher

Xuelong Li

Xuelong Li worked at University of London from 2004 to 2009, was a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2009 to 2018 and a professor at Northwestern Polytechnical from 2018 to 2023. Li became China Telecom CTO in 2023 and director of its TeleAI institute in 2024. His research areas include AI, imaging, image processing and AI flow. Li published Positive-Incentive Noise in 2024 and coauthored work in 2026 on adaptive learning for nonstationary data streams and optical image enhancement.

Now at
China Telecom
Works
1,651
Citations
80,875
h-index
120

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

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Timeline

  1. 2004–2023

    Academic appointments

    Xuelong Li worked at University of London from 2004 to 2009, was a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2009 to 2018 and a professor at Northwestern Polytechnical from 2018 to 2023.

  2. 2023–2024

    Industrial AI leadership

    Li became China Telecom CTO in 2023 and director of its TeleAI institute in 2024. His research areas include AI, imaging, image processing and AI flow.

  3. 2024–2026

    Learning and visual models

    Li published Positive-Incentive Noise in 2024 and coauthored work in 2026 on adaptive learning for nonstationary data streams and optical image enhancement.

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  1. Prof. Xuelong Li @ TeleAI, China Telecom xuelongli.cn. Checked 13 October 2026.