Max Li is the founder & CEO of OORT. He is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University (in the City of New York). Prior to that, he had been working with Qualcomm Research on 4G LTE and 5G systems design. He is an IEEE Senior member.Dr. Li is a holder of 200+ International/US patents (granted and pending). He has been actively publishing academic papers in top-ranking journals, including Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Communications Magazine, Automatica, etc. He has also served as a reviewer and technical program committee for most prestigious journals and conferences in communications, machine learning, and control societies. Dr. Li is a grant reviewer for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. He is the author of the book "Reinforcement Learning for Cyber-physical Systems" (Taylor & Francis CRC press). Chong Li has broad research interests including information theory, machine learning, distributed database and computing systems (e.g., blockchain), networked control and communication, PYH/MAC systems design for advanced telecommunication technologies (5G and beyond) He is a skier, hiker, ukulele player, and enthusiast of road trip.