Dr. Jin Li is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research (Redmond, WA), and manages the Compression 
Communication and Storage group. He received his Ph.D. (with honor) from  Tsinghua University (Beijing, 
China) in 1994. After brief stints at University of Southern California (USC) and the Sharp 
Laboratories of America (SLA), he joined Microsoft Research in 1999,  first as one of the founding 
members of Microsoft Research Asia (Beijing, China) (he has won a Microsoft Gold Star service award in 
1999 for his contribution), and then moved to Microsoft Research (Redmond, WA) in 2001. From 2000, 
Dr. Li has also served as an Affiliated Professor in Tsinghua University. 

Dr. Li's invention has been integrated into many Microsoft products, such as WMA9, Live Messenger, 
Live Mesh, Windows 7, Lync, Windows 8, Windows 8 server, Azure, Bing, Xbox Live. He was awarded the 
prestigious Microsoft Gold Star Service Award 4 times, in 1999, 2001, 2006 and 2010. Dr. Li has graduated 
from Microsoft Member Bench Program in 2007. 

Blending theory and system, Dr. Li excels at interdisciplinary research. He has published work in the top 
tier journal and conferences in Information Theory (ISIT, T-IT), Signal Processing (ICASSP, ICIP, DCC, 
VCIP, T-SP, T-IP, T-MM, T-CSVT), Communication Theory (INFOCOM, ICC/GLOBECOM), Network Systems (ACM SIGCOMM), 
Computer Systems (USENIX ATC, ICDCS, ACM MM), and Database (VLDB, ACM SIGMOD). He firmly believes that the 
multidisciplinary work brings tremendous value to the research community.  

Dr. Li was the recipient of Young Investigator Award from Visual Communication and Image Processing’98 (VCIP) 
in 1998, and the ICME 2009 Best Paper Award. He is/was the Associate Editor/Guest Editor of IEEE Trans. On 
Multimedia, Journal of Selected Area of Communication, Journal of Visual Communication and Image 
Representation, P2P networking and applications, Journal of Communications. He has served on the TPCs and 
Organization Committee of many conferences, e.g., as the General Chair of PV2009, the lead Program Chair 
of ICME 2011, the Vice General Chair of ICCCN 2011, the Workshop Co-Chair of ACM Multimedia 2011.