Nominee

 Name

Xing Li

 Organisation

China Education and Research Network

 Job Title

Chief Architect

 email

xing@cernet.edu.cn

Member

 Organisation

China Education and Research Network

 Account

CERNET-CN

 Name

Jianping Wu; Shuang Zhu

 Phone

+86-10-6278-5983

 Fax

+86-10-6278-5983

 email

jianping@cernet.edu.cn, szhu@cernet.edu.cn

 Statement

Xing Li received his B. S. degree in radio electronics from Tsinghua University, China in 1982, and his M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in electrical engineering from Drexel University, USA in 1985 and 1989, respectively.

He is currently a Professor in the Electronic Engineering Department at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His research activities and interests include statistical signal processing, multimedia communication and computer networks. He has published 2 books and more than 120 papers in his research areas.

Since 1993, he became one of the pioneers of the China Education and Research Network (CERNET, http://www.edu.cn). He is a member of Technical Board of the China Education and Research Network Project and deputy director of China Education and Research Network (CERNET) Center. He is chief architect of CERNET. He has rich experiences dealing with IP address and BGP management. He set up the first IP v6 network in China. He has been involved in many Internet related research and development projects in Mainland China.

He has been very active for the Internet development in Asia Pacific region and participating in APNG, APIA, APRICOT and APAN since 1994. He has been serving in the executive council of APNIC since 1996.

 Vision Statement

Asia Pacific, a region with great cultural diversity, is playing a very important role in the Internet community. I would like to continue contributing my time, energy and experience to APNIC, especially in the areas of IPv4/IPv6 resource management, national backbone operation and policy making. I'll try my best to help with the progress of APNIC, so as to provide a better service for Internet development in the Asia Pacific region.