- 原华为美国研究所首席科学家、资深副总裁、网络实验室主任
- 国际电信联盟ITU-T Network 2030主席: 带领中国和美英欧日韩俄等先进发达国家70余家政府机构、高校、网络设备制造商、运营商研究2030年时代的网络技术和标准
- 欧洲电信标准化组织ETSI下一代网络协议(NGP)副主席: 负责下一代网络技术和协议的发展规划、技术预研和协议规范
- 欧洲Horizon 2020基金的相关项目工业顾问
- 获IEEE通信学会2023年MMTC杰出研究员奖
- 7次获得国际会议最佳论文奖
- 8次获得华为金奖和总裁奖
- 担任国际会议主旨演讲人15次，包括全球通信最大会议Globecom和CCF A顶尖会议Infocom
- 担任国际会议相关委员会主席30次以上
- 120余篇专业论文，65项美国授权技术专利，40余项国际电信联盟和国际互联网等组织ITU/IETF/ETSI国际通信标准
- 研究成果部署在世界前100大运营商网络中，有些专利运行15年以上
Dr. Renwei (Richard) Li works as Chair Professor with School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. Prior to joining Southeast University in April 2024, Richard worked with Futurewei Technologies, aka Huawei R&D USA, from 2007 to 2024 as Chief Scientist, Senior Vice-President, and Head of Network Technologies Lab in Silicon Valley, USA. Before that, Richard worked with Cisco and Ericsson on their networking products, technologies, solutions and network operating systems. Richard also served as the Chairman of the ITU-T FG Network 2030 from 2018 to 2020, the Vice Chairman of the Europe ETSI ISG Next-Generation Protocols from 2016 to 2019, and Chairs of steering committees and technical program committees of 15 international conferences. He was a recipient of the 2023 IEEE MMTC Outstanding Researcher Award, and 7 other Best Paper Awards in international conferences. Richard was a keynote speaker in 15 international conferences including IEEE Globecom and Infocom. During his career, Richard spearheaded network technology innovation and development in Packet-Switched Networks, Routing and MPLS, Mobile Backhaul Networks, Metro and Core Networks, Data Center, Cloud and Virtualization with 65 US-granted patents and 120+ publications. Currently he serves on the advisory board for IEEE IoT Journal, as a technical editor for IEEE Network Magazine and guest editors for special issues of some journals. His current interests are focused on broadband communications and new networks including architectures, models, theories, algorithms, calculus, protocols, and systems in the support of emerging and forward-looking applications and industry verticals, especially in the context of 5G/6G and Network 2030.
