Education

• Sep. 2011 – Jul. 2017, Ph.D., College of Engineering, Peking University

• Sep. 2007 – Jun. 2011, Bachelor, College of Science, Zhejiang University of Technology

Professional Experience

2020-Present, Assistant Professor at School of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics (Formerly College of Engineering), Peking University

2018-2020, University of Oxford, Postdoctoral Fellow (Kevin Foster Lab)

2017-2018, ETH Zurich, Postdoctoral Research Associate (Frank Schweitzer Lab, Chair of Systems Design)

2015-2017, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visiting Student (Jeff Gore Lab)

2014-2017, Northeastern University (USA), Visiting Research Scholar (Albert-László Barabási Lab, Center for Complex Network Research)

Research Areas

Swarm Intelligence, Network System Control, Complex Systems and Complex Networks, Evolutionary Game Theory

Open Positions

We are continuously looking for Ph.D. candidates and postdoctoral researchers with interdisciplinary background, particularly in mathematics, systems dynamics, network science and computer science. If you are doing research related to our research topics/papers, please send me your CV and personal statement directly.

Selected Professional Honors and Awards

Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship Award (International Human Frontier Science Program)

Supervisor of Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation of Peking University

Beijing Nova Program

Xiong Youlun Zhihu Outstanding Young Scholar Award

Selected Professional Activities

National Science Review, Member of editorial group in Information Sciences;

PLOS Complex Systems, Member of editorial board;

Advances in Complex Systems, Guest editor for organizing the topical issue on Network Dynamics and Control. 

Invited reviewer for over 20 international journals, including: Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Communications, PNAS, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, New Journal of Physics, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Europhysics Letters, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Dynamic Games and Applications, Journal of Complex Networks, etc

Selected Recent Publications

1.Aming Li, Sean P. Cornelius, Yang-Yu Liu, Long Wang* and Albert-László Barabási*. The fundamental advantages of temporal networks. Science 358, 1042-1046 (2017). 

2.Aming Li, Lei Zhou, Qi Su, Sean P. Cornelius, Yang-Yu Liu*, Long Wang* and Simon A. Levin*. Evolution of cooperation on temporal networks. Nature Communications 11, 2259 (2020).

3.Xiaochen Wang#, Lei Zhou#, Alex McAvoy, Zhenglong Tian and Aming Li*. Strategy evolution on temporal hypergraphs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 123, e2516380123 (2026). 

4.Yuguang Yang, György Barabás, Serguei Saavedra and Aming Li*. Catalysts and inhibitors of critical transitions in ecological systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 123, e2516856122 (2026). 

5.Yao Meng, Alex McAvoy and Aming Li*. Promoting collective cooperation through temporal interactions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122, e2509575122 (2025). 

6.Yuan Zhang, Yuanqing Xia and Aming Li*. Generalized cactus and structural controllability of switched linear continuous-time systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 70, 1996-2003 (2025). 

7.Yao Meng, Sean P. Cornelius, Yang-Yu Liu and Aming Li*. Dynamics of collective cooperation under personalised strategy updates. Nature Communications 15, 3125 (2024). 

8.Yuguang Yang, Kevin R. Foster, Katharine Z. Coyte* and Aming Li*. Time delays modulate the stability of complex ecosystems. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7, 1610-1619 (2023). 

9.Yongqiang Guan, Shichao Ren and Aming Li*. Edge controllability of signed networks. Automatica 147, 110694 (2023). 

10.Yuguang Yang, Katharine Z. Coyte, Kevin R. Foster* and Aming Li*. Reactivity of complex communities can be more important than stability. Nature Communications 14, 7204 (2023). 

11.Anzhi Sheng, Qi Su, Aming Li*, Long Wang* and Joshua B. Plotkin*. Constructing temporal networks with bursty activity patterns. Nature Communications 14, 7311 (2023). 

12.Chengdong Ma#, Aming Li#, Yali Du#, Hao Dong and Yaodong Yang*. Efficient and scalable reinforcement learning for large-scale network control. Nature Machine Intelligence 6, 1006-1020 (2024). 

13.Xiaochen Wang#, Lei Zhou#, Alex McAvoy and Aming Li*. Imitation dynamics on networks with incomplete information. Nature Communications 14, 7453 (2023). 

14.Qingsong Liu, Aming Li* and Li Chai. Dynamics of opinion propagation with memory and fake news. Automatica 185, 112745 (2026). (Regular paper) 

15.Lingling Yao, Dongmei Xie* and Aming Li*. Convergence analysis of the Friedkin-Johnsen model with multiple topics. Automatica 177, 112272 (2025). (Regular paper) 

16.Changxi Li, Aming Li*, Yuhu Wu and Long Wang*. Logical dynamic games: models, equilibria, and potentials. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 69, 7584-7599 (2024). (Regular paper)