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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.