She earned her Ph.D. degree in Information Sciences and Technology from the Pennsylvania State University in 2010. Her research interests focus on security and privacy issues in distributed information systems, database systems, and communication networks. Her recent projects include smart grid security, social media and social networks analysis, and Internet anonymity. Dr. Li has published over 30 refereed papers in top computer security and networking journals and conferences. Her work on traffic analysis resilience in Tor won the best paper award in the 2015 EAI SecureComm conference. Dr. Li has also served on the editorial boards of International Journal on Security and JSM Computer Science & Engineering, and the Technical Program Committee of several conferences and workshops including IEEE SmartGridComm, ACM CIKM, etc.