Jin Li, Principal Researcher & Manager
Compression Communication and Storage
Microsoft Research
Email: jinl@microsoft.com

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 excels at multi-disciplinary research. He leads a team of researchers with background in information and communication theory, and develops the theory to build better practical systems. He has published work in the top tier journal and conferences across communities at Information Theory (ISIT, T-IT), Signal Processing (ICASSP, T-SP), Communication Theory (INFOCOM, ICC/GLOBECOM), Network Systems (SIGCOMM), Computer Systems (USENIX ATC, ICDCS), Database(VLDB, SIGMOD), and Multimedia (ACM MM, ICME). He also has a stellar track record in developing core technologies that provide tangible benefits to Microsoft products. His invention has been integrated into 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.

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 Workshop Co-Chair of ACM Multimedia 2011, and the TPC Chair of CCNC 2013. He is an IEEE Fellow.       

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