Prof. Qingquan Li is an academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, a foreign academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering, the vice president of the Chinese Society for Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography (CSGPC), as well as the vice president and regional editor (Asia-Pacific) of International Society for Urban Informatics. He received his Ph.D. in photogrammetry and remote sensing from the Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping. For over twenty years, Professor Li has been dedicated to researching multidisciplinary theories, intelligence techniques, and high-end equipment to achieve dynamic and precise engineering surveying. To this end, he has developed a series of theory, methods, and equipment to meet the various and strict needs in dynamic and precise engineering surveying. The resultant devices and equipment have been applied in the construction, operation and maintenance of highways, railways, bridges, tunnels, water conservancy projects, and smart cities across 32 provinces and cities in China, reversing the import of high-end measurement equipment to export and bringing economic benefits of billions of dollars.

As credits to his innovative work, he received a Second Prize in the National Technology Invention Award, a Second Prize in the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the National Science and Technology Progress Innovation Team Award, as well as nine first prizes in Science and Technology Progress at the provincial and ministerial levels. Professor Li ranks among the world's top 2% scientists for career-long citation impact listed by Stanford University.