Dr Jie Li is an Endowed Chair Professor in Computer Science and Engineering, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Director of Intelligent Big Data System (iBDSys) Lab., Director of SJTU Blockchain Research Centre, Adjunct Professor of Zhiyuan College with Zhiyuan Honors Program and SJTU Paris Elite Institute of Technology (SPEIT), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Shanghai, China. He is a Foreign Fellow, Engineering Academy of Japan (EAJ) (2019). He was a full Professor in Department of Computer Science, University of Tsukuba, Japan. He was 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. He has been a visiting Professor/Adjunct Professor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), The Hong Kong Polytechnical University (PolyU), City University of Hong Kong, Tsinghua University, and University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). His current research interests are in Big Data, AI, Blockchain, network systems and security, and smart city. His research has been continuously supported by many national and industrial research grants.

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

He 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, and the Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan.

He 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 had 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 also served on the program committees for several international professional conferences.