Yatian Li received the B.S. and M.S. degrees (Hons.) in communications engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin, China, in 2013 and 2015, respectively and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical and electrical engineering with the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Beijing, China, in 2019. He is an Assistant Researcher with the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Changchun, China. His main research interests include free space optical communications, fading turbulent channel, signal detection, MIMO technology, and multiple access. He has held or participated in 7 projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Key Research and Development of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Military Pre-Research, and Equipment Development of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He has published more than twenty papers (nine JCR Q1/Q2 papers as the first or corresponding author). He has authorized more than ten patents (six as the first inventor). He is serving as the guest editor of<Photonics>. He has also been the workshop co-chair of IEEE ICCT 2023, and session chair of IEEE ICCC 2023. He has served as the reviewer for more than ten SCI journals, such as IEEE, OSA, Elsevier journals.