Aming Li

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I am now a Tenure Track Assistant Professor at School of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, Peking University.

I was an HFSP Postdoctoral Fellow in the Foster Lab led by Prof. Kevin Foster, University of Oxford from July 2018 to October 2020. Prior to that, I served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate under the supervision of Prof. Frank Schweitzer at the Department of Management, Technology and Economics, ETH Zürich, from October 2017 to June 2018.

From September 2011 to July 2017, I completed my PhD in General Mechanics and Foundation of Mechanics at Center for Systems and Control, College of Engineering, under the supervision of Prof. Long Wang.

Email: liaming AT pku.edu.cn, amingli AT pku.edu.cn

Address: School of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuan Road, Beijing.

Office: 1036, ENN Engineering Building. Telephone: (+86) 10-6276-6596.

Research Overview

At Peking University, I lead a research group that employs an interdisciplinary approach integrating complex systems, complex networks, and evolutionary game theory to tackle key challenges in swarm intelligence. Specifically, we focus on revealing the evolutionary mechanisms of group game strategies in temporal (time-varying) networks, analyzing fundamental properties including system stability and reactivity, and designing control strategies to regulate system states in networked systems.

Honors & Awards

    ●  2025, Supervisor of Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation of Peking University.

    ●  2025, ICBC Teaching Endowment Outstanding Teacher Award of Peking University.

    ●  2025, Xiong Youlun Zhihu Outstanding Young Scholar Award.

    ●  2025, Outstanding Advisor Award of School of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, Peking University.

    ●  2024, Excellence Award, “Zhimou-2024” Program, Ministry-level Agency of China.

    ●  2024, Outstanding Advisor Award of College of Engineering, Peking University.

    ●  2023, Outstanding Class Advisor Award of Peking University.

    ●  2021, Beijing Nova Program.

    ●  2021, BOE Education Award of Peking University.

    ●  2021, Second Prize in Young Teachers Basic Teaching Skills Competition of Peking University.

    ●  2021, Best Teaching Demonstration Award in Young Teachers Basic Teaching Skills Competition of Peking University.

    ●  2018, The International Human Frontier Science Program Organization Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship Award.

People

    ●  Postdoctoral Fellows: Dr. Gaopeng Duan, Dr. Wenqi Cao, Dr. Jiawei Wu, Dr. Xiaodan Zhang.

    ●  Ph.D. Candidates: Xiaochen Wang, B.E., Tingting Qin, B.E., Jiachao Guo, M.E., Shuaiying Wang, M.E., Mingye Ji, B.E., Yi Lei, B.S., Tianxing Zhao, B.S., Chuyu Wei, M.E., Chenglin Li, B.E..

    ●  M.D. Candidates: He Qu, B.S., Zihan Li, B.E..

    ●  Alumni: Dr. Lingling Yao(Algorithm Engineer at SMIC), Dr. Changxi Li(Professor at Shandong University), Dr. Yao Meng(Associate Researcher at Shandong University), Guyu Hou(Algorithm Engineer at Huawei), M.S., Zhenglong Tian, M.Eng.(Algorithm Engineer at Goertek), Jianying Gong, M.Eng.(Algorithm Engineer at Meituan), Jiayuan Zhang, M.Eng.(Research Assistant at PKU), Dr. Yuguang Yang(Postdoctoral Research Associate at MIT).

Associate Researcher

Teaching at PKU

    ●  Spring 2026, Game and Control of Swarm Systems, Graduate Elective.

    ●  Spring 2025, Swarm Intelligence, Undergraduate Elective.

    ●  Fall 2025, Mathematical Foundations of Control, Graduate Required.

    ●  Spring 2024, Game and Control of Swarm Systems, Graduate Elective.

    ●  Fall 2024, Mathematical Foundations of Control, Graduate Required.

    ●  Spring 2023, Game and Control of Swarm Systems, Graduate Elective.

    ●  Fall 2023, Mathematical Foundations of Control, Graduate Required.

    ●  Spring 2022, Game and Control of Swarm Systems, Graduate Elective.

    ●  Fall 2022, Swarm Intelligence, Undergraduate Elective.

    ●  Fall 2022, Ordinary Differential Equation, Undergraduate Core, Required.

    ●  Spring 2021, Game and Control of Swarm Systems, Graduate Elective.

    ●  Fall 2021, Swarm Intelligence, Undergraduate Elective.

Publications

(#Joint first author, *Corresponding author.)

  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). [DOI]
  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). [DOI]
  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). [DOI]
  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). [DOI]
  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). [DOI]
  6. Yao Meng, Sean P. Cornelius, Yang-Yu Liu and Aming Li*. Dynamics of collective cooperation under personalised strategy updates. Nature Communications 15, 3125 (2024). [DOI]
  7. 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). [DOI]
  8. Xiaochen Wang#, Lei Zhou#, Alex McAvoy and Aming Li*. Imitation dynamics on networks with incomplete information. Nature Communications 14, 7453 (2023). [DOI]
  9. 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). [DOI]
  10. Anzhi Sheng, Qi Su, Aming Li*, Long Wang* and Joshua B. Plotkin*. Constructing temporal networks with bursty activity patterns. Nature Communications 14, 7311 (2023). [DOI]
  11. 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). [DOI]
  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). [DOI]
  13. Qingsong Liu, Aming Li* and Li Chai. Dynamics of opinion propagation with memory and fake news. Automatica 185, 112745 (2026). (Regular paper) [DOI]
  14. Lingling Yao, Dongmei Xie* and Aming Li*. Convergence analysis of the Friedkin-Johnsen model with multiple topics. Automatica 177, 112272 (2025). (Regular paper) [DOI]
  15. 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) [DOI]
  16. Yongqiang Guan, Shichao Ren and Aming Li*. Edge controllability of signed networks. Automatica 147, 110694 (2023). [DOI]
  17. Bofan Chen, Guyu Hou and Aming Li*. Temporal local clustering coefficient uncovers the hidden pattern in temporal networks. Physical Review E 109, 064302 (2024). [DOI]
  18. Yao Meng, Mark Broom and Aming Li*. Impact of misinformation in the evolution of collective cooperation. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 20, 20230295 (2023). [DOI]
  19. Tao Meng, Gaopeng Duan and Aming Li*. Target control of complex networks: How to save control energy? Physical Review E 108, 014301 (2023). [DOI]
  20. Tingting Qin, Gaopeng Duan and Aming Li*. Detecting the driver nodes of temporal networks. New Journal of Physics 25, 083031 (2023). [DOI]
  21. Ye Wang, Aming Li* and Long Wang*. Networked dynamic systems with higher-order interactions: stability versus complexity, National Science Review 11, nwae103 (2024). [DOI]
  22. Ye Wang, Yuguang Yang, Aming Li* and Long Wang*. Stability of multi-layer ecosystems, Journal of the Royal Society Interface 20, 20220752 (2023). [DOI]
  23. Tao Meng, Gaopeng Duan, Aming Li* and Long Wang*. Control energy scaling for target control of complex networks. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 167, 112986 (2023). [DOI]
  24. Hongyu Wang, Aming Li* and Long Wang*. High-accuracy approximation of evolutionary pairwise games on complex networks. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 173, 113602 (2023). [DOI]
  25. Ye Wang, Aming Li* and Long Wang*. Stability of complex communities with environmental feedbacks. Proceedings of the Royal Society A 481, 20240872 (2025). [DOI]
  26. Anzhi Sheng, Aming Li* and Long Wang*. Evolutionary dynamics on sequential temporal networks. PLoS Computational Biology 19, e1011333 (2023). [DOI]
  27. Aming Li, Guyu Hou and Long Wang*. Theory and method for constructing temporal networks. Control and Decision 38, 1473-1490 (2023). (in Chinese) [DOI]
  28. Yongqiang Guan, Aming Li and Long Wang*. Structural controllability of directed signed networks. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems 8, 1189-1200 (2021). [DOI]
  29. Xin-Yue Yang, Chuyue Zhao, Zhentao Zuo, Aming Li, Huan Luo*, Qing He* and Fang Fang*. Frequency-dependent photic modulation of wakeful consolidation in visual learning. Nature Communications 16, 11603(2025). [DOI]
  30. Ke Liu, Tianyun Huang, Aming Li, Pengyu Lv, Tingting Qin, Wenhui Chen, Hui Wei and Huiling Duan*. Evolution of physical intelligence across scales. Advanced Intelligent Discovery, e202500178 (2026). [DOI]
  31. Rene Niehus, Nuno M. Oliveira, Aming Li, Alexander G. Fletcher and Kevin R. Foster*. The evolution of strategy in bacterial warfare via the regulation of bacteriocins and antibiotics. eLife 10, e69756 (2021). [DOI]
  32. Aming Li, Mark Broom, Jinming Du and Long Wang*. Evolutionary dynamics of general group interactions in structured populations. Physical Review E 93, 022407 (2016). [DOI]
  33. Aming Li* and Long Wang. Evolutionary dynamics of synergistic and discounted group interactions in structured populations. Journal of Theoretical Biology 377, 57-65 (2015). [DOI]
  34. Aming Li, Bin Wu and Long Wang*. Cooperation with both synergistic and local interactions can be worse than each alone. Scientific Reports 4, 5536 (2014). [DOI]
  35. Aming Li* and Yang-Yu Liu*. Controlling network dynamics. Advances in Complex Systems 22, 1950021 (2019). [DOI]
  36. Aming Li*, Te Wu, Rui Cong and Long Wang. One step memory of group reputation is optimal to promote cooperation in public goods games. Europhysics Letters 103, 30007 (2013). [DOI]
  37. Aming Li and Long Wang. Controlling temporal networks. Journal of Systems Science and Mathematical Sciences 39, 2 (2019). (in Chinese) [DOI]
  38. Liang Li, Chen Chen and Aming Li*. Autonomy promotes the evolution of cooperation in prisoner's dilemma. Physical Review E 102, 042402 (2020). [DOI]
  39. Yanling Zhang#, Jian Liu# and Aming Li*. Effects of empathy on the evolutionary dynamics of fairness in group-structured systems. Complexity 2019, 2915020 (2019). [DOI]
  40. Gaopeng Duan#, Aming Li#, Tao Meng, Guofeng Zhang and Long Wang*. Energy cost for controlling complex networks. Physical Review E 99, 052305 (2019). [DOI]
  41. Gaopeng Duan#, Aming Li#, Tao Meng and Long Wang*. Energy cost for target control of complex networks. Advances in Complex Systems 22, 1950022 (2019). [DOI]
  42. Qi Su, Aming Li, Long Wang* and Harry Eugene Stanley*. Spatial reciprocity in the evolution of cooperation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286, 20190041 (2019). [DOI]
  43. Lei Zhou, Aming Li and Long Wang*. Evolution of cooperation on complex networks with synergistic and discounted group interactions. Europhysics Letters 110, 60006 (2015). [DOI]
  44. Qi Su, Aming Li, Lei Zhou and Long Wang*. Interactive diversity promotes the evolution of cooperation in structured populations. New Journal of Physics 18, 103007 (2016). [DOI]
  45. Qi Su, Aming Li and Long Wang*. Spatial structure favors cooperative behavior under snowdrift game with multiple interactive dynamics. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 468, 299 (2017). [DOI]
  46. Qi Su, Aming Li and Long Wang*. Evolutionary dynamics under interactive diversity. New Journal of Physics 19, 103023 (2017). [DOI]
  47. Lei Zhou, Aming Li and Long Wang*. Coevolution of nonlinear group interactions and strategies in well-mixed and structured populations. Journal of Theoretical Biology 440, 32-41 (2018). [DOI]
  48. Qi Su, Aming Li and Long Wang*. Evolution of cooperation with interactive identity and diversity. Journal of Theoretical Biology 442, 149-157 (2018). [DOI]
  49. Elohim Fonseca dos Reis, Aming Li and Naoki Masuda*. Generative models of simultaneously heavy-tailed distributions of interevent. Physical Review E 102, 052303 (2020). [DOI]
  50. Anurag Limdi, Alfonso Pérez-Escudero, Aming Li and Jeff Gore*. Asymmetric migration decreases stability but increases resilience in a heterogeneous metapopulation, Nature Communications 9, 2969 (2018). [DOI]
  51. Takayuki Hiraoka, Naoki Masuda, Aming Li and Hang-Hyun Jo*. Modeling temporal networks with bursty activity patterns of nodes and links. Physical Review Research 2, 023073 (2020). [DOI]
  52. Jiaping Ren*, Wanxuan Sun, Dinesh Manocha, Aming Li and Xiaogang Jin. Stable information transfer network facilitates the emergence of collective behavior of bird flocks. Physical Review E 98, 052309 (2018). [DOI]
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