Li Ping received his Ph.D. degree at Glasgow University in 1990. He lectured at Department of Electronic Engineering, Melbourne University, from 1990 to 1992, and worked as a research staff at Telecom Australia Research Laboratories from 1993 to 1995. He has been with the Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, since January 1996 where he is now a professor.  He received a British Telecom - Royal Society Fellowship in 1986, the IEE J J Thomson premium in 1993 and a Croucher Foundation Award in 2005.