University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

IEEE Fellow

Biography: Hongwei Li is the Director of the Center for Faculty Development at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He is an IEEE Fellow (2024), a Distinguished Professor of the National Major Talent Project (2019), a member of the expert group for a major special project under the Ministry of Science and Technology's (MOST) 15th Five-Year Plan, and the group leader for the "Cyberspace Data Governance" direction of the MOST 14th Five-Year Plan key special project on "Cyberspace Security Governance." Additionally, he serves as the Director of the National Discipline Innovation and Talent Introduction Base for Data Security Governance, Chair of the Communication and Information Security Technical Committee under the IEEE Communications Society, and an IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Distinguished Lecturer.
His research interests focus on data security and artificial intelligence security. He has published 85 papers in JCR-1 journals and CCF-A conferences. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the 2025 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, the ACM CCS 2025 Distinguished Paper Award, the First Prize of the 2019 National Science and Technology Progress Award, the First Prize of the 2021 Wu Wenjun AI Science and Technology Progress Award, and the Second Prize of the 2021 Natural Science Award from the Chinese Institute of Electronics.