Curriculum vitae

Sigao Li

AI Product Manager at Ebest Mobile, Shanghai — built on six years of geographic analysis and an MSc in Business Analytics.

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Professional experience

  1. Ebest Mobile

    Shanghai, China

    Apr 2026 — Present

    AI Product Manager

  2. IBM & University of Bristol

    Bristol, UK

    Jan 2025 — Apr 2025

    Business Analytics Consultant

  3. PiinPoint

    Kitchener, Canada

    Jan 2023 — Apr 2023

    Geospatial Data Analyst

  4. iQIYI, Inc.

    Shanghai, China

    Jun 2021 — Aug 2021

    Business Analyst

  5. MioTech

    Shanghai, China

    Apr 2021 — Jun 2021

    Data Analyst

  6. Sohu.com Limited

    Beijing, China

    Feb 2021 — Apr 2021

    Product Analyst

Research assistantships

  1. University of Bristol

    1. Jun 2025 — Present

      Research Assistant — Sustainable Development Research

    2. May 2025 — Present

      Research Assistant — AI & Operations Research

    3. Dec 2024 — Present

      Research Assistant — Transportation Big Data

    4. Jul 2024 — Apr 2025

      Research Assistant — Natural Language Processing

  2. Cognitive Aging Lab, Toronto Metropolitan University

    Mar 2024 — Sept 2024

    Research Assistant

  3. Ryerson University

    1. Sept 2022 — Dec 2022

      Research Assistant — Health Geography

    2. Jul 2022 — Aug 2022

      Research Assistant — GIS

Academic background

  1. University of Bristol

    Bristol, UK

    Sept 2024 — Nov 2025

    MSc in Business Analytics

  2. Toronto Metropolitan University

    Toronto, Canada

    Sept 2022 — Oct 2023

    MSA in Spatial Analysis

  3. Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University)

    Toronto, Canada

    Sept 2018 — Jun 2022

    BA (Hons) in Geographic Analysis, Minor in Economics

Volunteering & GISphere

  1. Chinese Students and Scholars Association Bristol

    Jul 2024 — Present

    Academic Assistant

  2. GISphere

    1. Apr 2024 — Present

      Director, GISource

    2. May 2022 — Mar 2024

      Campus Partner

  3. GeoScene Information Technology

    Aug 2021 — Aug 2022

    Campus Ambassador

Honors & awards

  • 2024 Think Big Postgraduate Scholarship (£6,500)
  • 2023 President's Prize, Canadian Cartographic Association Mapping Competition
  • 2023 Graduate Development Award (C$700)
  • 2022 Arts Grad Funding Spatial (C$5,000)
  • 2021 Global University Python Quantitative Simulation Investment Competition — Individual Final 6th
  • 2020 GLO-BUS Business Strategy Simulation — Global Top 50
  • 2018 Guaranteed and Renewable Scholarship (C$500)

Skills & certifications

Data & Engineering

PythonRSQLNoSQLJavaScriptDatabricksHadoopAWSGitLinux

ML Frameworks

PyTorchTensorFlowKerasscikit-learnNLTKNetworkXPuLPPySparkGeoPandasArcPy

Tools

TableauPower BIGoogle AnalyticsEsri SuiteQGISAutoCAD

Certifications

  • Artificial Intelligence — University of Toronto
  • Data Science — University of Waterloo