Dr. Zhe Li is a Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of Hong Kong (HKU). His research focuses on speech large language models (Speech LLMs) and robust speaker representation learning, with broader interests in multimodal AI for healthcare applications. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He was a research intern at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) and previously conducted international collaborative research as a visiting student scholar with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University.

Dr. Li has led a graduate research innovation project and has served as a core member of multiple National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) projects and Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC)–funded projects. He has published over 50 papers. He holds three granted invention patents and one software copyright. As a key contributor, he received the 2020 Excellent Science and Technology Achievement Award from the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, and his co-authored paper received the Best Student Paper Runner-Up Award at PRICAI 2024.