Dr. Albert Li is a world-renowned expert in cybersecurity, machine learning (ML), systems, networking and IoT. He is one of the few scientists known to heavily apply ML to security detection/investigation. Albert has 20 years of experience in security and has been applying machine learning to security for 15 years.

Previously, he was the head of NEC Labs’ computer security department, where he initiated, architected, and commercialized NEC’s own AI-driven security platform. He has filed 48 US patents and has published nearly 50 seminal research papers. Dr. Li has a Ph.D. in system and network security from Northwestern University and a B.Sc. from Tsinghua University.