Born in 1986, Ang Li spent only 10 years in elementary and high school education, and became the youngest college student in his class at age 16. He obtained a BS in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, and now is pursuing PhD in Duke University. Ang Li is the recipient of the scholarship of Excellent Academic Performance for all four years' college study at Tsinghua, and the recipient of the Dean's fellowship at UCIrvine, prior to moving to Duke with his group.

Ang Li's research interests include designing and implementing large-scale networked computer systems. He has published several papers in ACM and IEEE sponsored conferences, and is the student member of both ACM and USENIX. He also served as the reviewer of IEEE/ACM Transaction of Networking, IEEE Transaction on Network and Service Management, and Elsevier Computer Networks.