Prof. Jie Li (M’96–SM’04) received the B.E. degree in computer science from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, the M.E. degree in electronic engineering and communication systems from the China Academy of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, and the Dr.Eng. degree from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan.

Prof. Jie Li is a Professor Emeritus in computer science in Division of Information Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, University of Tsukuba, Japan. He has been a visiting Professor in Yale University, USA, Inria Sophia Antipolis and Inria Grenoble–Rhone-Aples, France, during the sabbatical year in September 2014 through August 2015. His current research interests are in big data, cloud, wireless and mobile networking, network security, IoT, OS, modeling and performance evaluation of information systems. His research has been supported by many national and international projects sponsored by JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science), NICT (National Institute of Communications Technology), NII (National Institute of Informatics), and other foundations such as Okawa Foundation, Casio Science Promotion Foundation, International Information Science Foundation, TEPCO Memorial Foundation, and Japanese-Isreali Research Grant, etc. He was a research supervisor to the Japan New-generation Broadcasting Technical Research Institute which is sponsored by Japanese government and founded by many representative companies such as SONY, Panasonic, Ricoh, etc. for analyzing and optimizing practical data transmission and broadcasting schemes over wireless and mobile networks over Japan. His research results have been implemented in software for new generation wireless and mobile networks and distributed systems.

He is a senior member of IEEE and ACM, and a member of IPSJ (The Information Processing Society of Japan). He is the founding chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Big Data (TCBD) and the co-chair of IEEE Big Data Community.

Prof. Li received the B.E. degree in computer science from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, the M.E. degree in electronic engineering and communication systems from China Academy of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China. He received the Dr. Eng. degree from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan.  Dr. Li has served as an editor and a guest editor for many international journals such as IEEE TBD, IEEE JSAC, IEEE IoTJ, IEEE TVT, IEEE TCC, IEEE TNSE, IEEE Access, and IEEE Network, etc. He has served as a secretary for Study Group on System Evaluation of IPSJ and on Steering Committees of the SIG of System EVAluation (EVA) of IPSJ, the SIG of DataBase System (DBS) of IPSJ, and the SIG of MoBiLe computing and ubiquitous communications of IPSJ. He has served on several editorial boards for the IPSJ Journal and many international professional journals. He has also served on the program committees for several international professional conferences.