Summary
Yunjia Li is a seasoned technology leader and Group CTO with 14 years of professional experience and over 20 years of involvement in web technologies, combining academic depth (PhD in Semantic Web Multimedia Data Analytics) with practical product leadership. He co-founded Synote to make lecture media accessible and scalable, and has repeatedly translated research into commercial solutions across edtech and higher-education platforms. As CTO/COO at multiple startups and a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, he blends R&D in big-data and open-data projects with hands-on engineering and product delivery. A Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellow and Cambridge Ignite MBA alumnus, he has a track record of winning grants and launching ML-enabled features such as a university-finder app. Based in Chandler's Ford, UK, he is particularly adept at building accessible, searchable multimedia systems and end-to-end cloud solutions that lower cost and broaden access to education.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Ignite MBA, Ignite MBA at Cambridge Judge Business School
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Semantic Web Multimedia Data analytics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Semantic Web Multimedia Data analytics at University of Southampton
BEng (Distinction) Computer Science and Software Engineering, BEng (Distinction) Computer Science and Software Engineering at School of Information Technology, East China University of Science and Technology