Dr. Rongpeng Li (李荣鹏) is now an associate professor in College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University (ZJU), Hangzhou, China, where he has been working since November 2016. He received his Ph.D from ZJU in June 2015 and his B.E. from Xidian University, Xi’an, China in June 2010. From August 2015 to September 2016, he was a research engineer with Wireless Communication Laboratory, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Shanghai, China. He was a visiting scholar in Department of Computer Science and Technology, Cambridge University, UK from February 2020 to August 2020, a visiting doctoral student in Supélec, Rennes, France from September 2013 to December 2013, and an intern researcher in China Mobile Research Institute, Beijing, China from May 2014 to August 2014.

His research interests currently focus on networked intelligence with communications efficiency such as NetGPT, multi-agent reinforcement learning and its applications. He has also dipped in fields like cellular network data mining, stochastic geometry-based analyses, full-duplex networks, multiple access, etc. He has published 100+ referred articles in the related fields. Dr. Li received the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Excellent Youth Award. He serves as an Editor of China Communications.

Contact

Address: Room 221, Xindian Building, Yuquan Campus Zhejiang University, Zheda Rd. 38, Hangzhou 310027, China (杭州市西湖区浙大路浙江大学信电楼221室)

Research

Interests

Applications of Reinforcement Learning and Generative Models: Network Slicing, Nuclear Fusion, and Swarms; Demo 1, 2
Communications in Distributed Learning and/or Multi-Agent Systems: Semantic Communications, Federated Learning, and Inter-Agent or Cloud-Edge-Terminal Collaboration Frameworks
Offline (Model-based) Reinforcement Learning: Dynamics Modeling, Out-Of-Distribution Mitigation, and Confidence Bound Analyses

Projects

[Ongoing] Intelligent Identification and Simulation Prediction of Plasma Pressure Profile

Ministry of Science and Technology of China (01/2025 - 12/2029) No. 2024YFE03020001
Personal Role: Co-Principal Investigator
参与国家磁约束核聚变能发展研究专项（“面向聚变堆等离子体压强剖面智能控制的合作研究”项目-“等离子体压强剖面智能识别和模拟预测研究”课题）
[Ongoing] Key Theory and Technologies to Enable AI Applications in 6G Networks

Ministry of Science and Technology of China (07/2024 - 06/2027) No. 2024YFE0200602
Personal Role: Principal Investigator
主持国家重点研发计划项目课题（“6G通信与AI融合关键技术研究与验证”项目-“6G网络赋能AI应用的理论与技术研究”课题）
[Ongoing] Task-Oriented Mobile Networks for Decentralized Intelligence Service Provisioning

Zhejiang Provincial Science Foundation of China (01/2023 - 12/2025) No. LR23F010005
Personal Role: Principal Investigator
主持浙江省自然科学基金杰出青年项目（“面向移动分布式智能业务的任务中心网络”）
[Completed] Research on Full Service Awareness based Intelligence-Endogenous Networks

National Science Foundation of China (01/2021 - 12/2024) No. 62071425
Personal Role: Principal Investigator
主持国家自然科学基金面上项目（“基于业务感知的内生智能通信网络研究”）
[Completed] The Study of Service-Oriented Smart Software-Defined Cellular Networks

National Science Foundation of China (01/2018 - 12/2022) No. 61701439
Personal Role: Principal Investigator
主持国家自然科学基金青年基金项目（“面向业务的智能软件定义蜂窝网研究”）
[Completed] Wireless Edge Resource Utilization Theory based on User Behavior Prediction

National Science Foundation of China (01/2018 - 12/2020) No. 61731002
Personal Role: Key Participant
参与国家自然科学基金重点基金项目（“基于用户行为预测的无线边缘网络资源利用理论研究”）
[Completed] The Study of Wireless Big Data Driven Intelligent Software Defined Cellular Networks

National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents of China (11/2016 - 10/2018) No. BX201600133
Personal Role: Principal Investigator
首届（2016）博士后创新人才支持计划（“无线大数据驱动下智能软件定义蜂窝网技术研究”）
[Completed] The Application Study of Wireless Big Data on Intelligent Network Management

The 1st-Class Project funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (05/2017 - 10/2018) No. 2017M610369
Personal Role: Principal Investigator
主持中国博士后基金会一等资助（“无线大数据技术在智能化网络管理中的应用研究”）

Visions

A vision on Integration of AI and Communications in 2016

Services

Editor

China Communications
Frontiers in Communications and Networks

Conference Organizers

Symposium Co-Chair, Symposium on “AI-Enabled Communications and Networks (AICN)” of FCN 2025
Special Session Co-Chair, Special Session on “Interplay of Foundation Models and Telecommunications” of IEEE SPAWC 2025
Workshop Co-Chair, Workshop on “Intelligent 6G Architecture: Towards Network Simplicity and Autonomy” of IEEE Globecom 2023
Workshop Co-Chair, Workshop “On Architectural Innovations for 6G: Native-AI and Digital Twin” of of IEEE ICC 2023
TPC Co-Chair, Workhop on “The Impact of Multi-modal Large Language Models on 6G and Beyond” of IEEE Globecom 2024
TPC Co-Chair of ICT-DM 2021 (The 7th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management
TPC Co-Chair, Riding with AI towards Mission-Critical Communications and Computing at the Edge (AIMCOM2) Workshop of IEEE ICNP 2020
“Green Communications and Networks” Track Chair of IEEE VTC 2018-Spring
Web & System Chair of IEEE ISCIT 2011 (The 11th IEEE International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies)
Web Design Chair of IEEE OnlineGreenComm 2015
Coordinator of York-Zhejiang Summer School on Cognitive Communications

Affiliated Members

Senior Member, IEEE
Senior Member, China Communications Socity (中国通信学会）