Jun Li

Jun Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon, and directs the Network Security Research Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles, CA, in 2002, with honors (Outstanding Doctor of Philosophy).

His current research is mainly targeted toward network security. He is also interested in Internet protocols, network simulation and performance analysis, and distributed systems. Currently Shad Stafford and Toby Ehrenkranz are his Ph.D. students. Prof. Li also mentors graduate student researchers Yibo Wang, Paul Knickerbocker, Jeremy Kaufman, and Cameron Hertel in conducting various Internet security projects. In addition, he is now enjoying working with two superb undergraduate researchers, Scott Brooks and Joseph Greer.

Jun Li is the recent recipient of the esteemed CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for his work entitled "A Behavior-Based Framework for Detecting Internet Worms." He is also the principal investigator of a research on distributed monitoring of unknown, self-propagating Internet worms, which is supported by a research grant from Intel. Mic Bowman is the champion at Intel for this research.

He is also the principal investigator of the IRF research that investigates the classification and detection of the impact on BGP from abnormal events, with a three-year grant from NSF. David Meyer and Dejing Dou are co-PIs of this project. The program officer at NSF for this project is Darleen Fisher.

Prof. Li has also been investigating a protocol that can be incrementally deployed on the Internet to enforce the IP source address validity of Internet packets. He is a principal designer of the SAVE protocol, and the current protocol in study is dubbed ID-SAVE.

In an earlier work called mSSL (pronounced as "missile"), he designed the mSSL framework that extends SSL to secure data sharing among distrusted and selfish clients.

Since his dissertation research guided by Peter Reiher and Gerald Popek, Jun Li has been studying the large-scale dissemination of security updates over the Internet and developed Revere system. He also researched the security of distributed adaptation in open architecture, or more specifically in Conductor framework, with Mark Yarvis (now at Intel).

Before studying abroad, Jun Li was at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Software, studying the operating systems for three years under the guidance of Prof. Yufang Sun, especially the security of operating systems. His undergraduate study is at Peking University (i.e. Beijing University) after a wonderful high school life at Changzhi No.1 High School.

He has more than twenty publications, including eight journal articles and a book as the first author, Disseminating Security Updates at Internet Scale (Kluwer Academic Publishers). He is a member of IEEE, ACM, and other academic organizations, and has served on several conference program committees and NSF panels.

Prof. Li is also the faculty advisor of the University of Oregon Chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE), an honor society for the computing sciences.

He ascribes his every step forward to his family, students, advisors, colleagues, friends, classmates, and simply a tiny bit effort from himself, and every step backward to himself and the unconquerable nature.