Biography
- Li Gong was born in 1963 and raised in Beijing.
- Received his bachelor and masters degrees at Tsinghua University
- Received his PhD at University of Cambridge, where he worked with Roger Needham and David Wheeler
- Began his career as a researcher, and served as chairmans of several IEEE and ACM conferences
- In 1996, he joined as Chief Java Security Architect the JavaSoft division at Sun Microsystems (in Cupertino, California). He became a Distinguished Engineer and later a senior engineering director and headed engineering for JES and JXTA
- In 2001, he returned to Beijing to start up Sun Microsystems Engineering and Research Institute (ERI) and served as its General Manager.
- In 2005 he joined Microsoft as General Manager to lead MSN in China.
- In 2007, he joined Mozilla to found Mozilla Online Ltd.
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