Gang Li, Vice Chair of the Academic Committee

Chief expert of the National Natural Science Foundation of China Innovative Research Group (2018); Vice Chair of the Academic Committee of Wuhan University and Chair of its Social Sciences Division Committee; Director of the Center for Studies of Information Resources of Wuhan University, a Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education; Director of the Wuhan Research Base of National Information Resources Management; Director of the Smart City Research Center of Wuhan University; and chief expert of the Central China National Technology Transfer Center. He also serves as Secretary-General of the National Steering Committee for Professional Degree Education in Library and Information Science, Vice President of the China Information Economics Society, Executive Council Member of the China Society for Scientific and Technical Information, and Executive Council Member of the China Society of Social Science Information. He is Editor-in-Chief of the "Journal of Information Resources Management" and an editorial board member of the "Journal of the China Society for Scientific and Technical Information" and other journals. He previously served as a member of the National Teaching Steering Committee for Management Science and Engineering in Higher Education, Chair of the "Digital Space and Social Governance Think Tank Alliance", and President of the Hubei Electronic Commerce Society.

He has led important research projects, including the major National Social Science Fund of China project "Research on the Construction of an Intelligence System for Emergency Decision-Making in Smart Cities", the subproject "Methods for the Integration and Analysis of National Security Big Data" of a major National Natural Science Foundation of China project, the key special project of the National Key R&D Program "Integration and Application Demonstration of Comprehensive Science and Technology Services for the Urban Agglomeration in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River", and major projects of the Key Research Bases of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education.

He received the First Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of Higher Education Institutions twice, in 2009 and 2013, and served three times as Executive Chair of the Young Scientists Forum of the China Association for Science and Technology.

Since 1990, he has taught at the School of Information Management, Wuhan University;

He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1997 and to Professor in 2002, and became a doctoral supervisor in 2003;

From 2004 to 2005, he was a Senior Visiting Scholar at the "Texas Center for Digital Knowledge" of the University of North Texas, USA;

In 2008, he was appointed Luojia Distinguished Professor of Wuhan University; in 2014, he was appointed Luojia Distinguished Scholar of Wuhan University.

Research interests: information management and information systems, information resources management, competitive intelligence and competitive strategy.