IET Jennison Lecture 2024

Prof Li is the director of the Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS), which represents the University of Kent as one of 21 Academic Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACEs-CSR) and one of 15 Academic Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Education (ACEs-CSE), both recognised by the UK Government. His research interests are mostly around interdisciplinary topics covering cyber security and privacy, human factors, cybercrime and online harms, social media analytics, and practical applications of AI and NLP techniques in the above topics. He has published over 100 research papers at international journals
and conferences, and received five Best Paper Awards and one Honorable Mention, including the 2022 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award. He co-authored a monograph on Cognitive Modeling for Automated Human Performance Evaluation at Scale (Springer, 2020), and co-edited multiple books and conference proceedings including the Handbook of Digital Forensics of Multimedia Data and Devices (John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and IEEE Press, 2015). He is currently on the editorial boards of a number of international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. He has been on the organising or technical program committees of over 100 international conferences and workshops. He co-founded KMCC (Kent & Medway Cyber Cluster) and KMCSN (Kent & Medway CyberSchools Network). More about his research and professional activities can be found at his personal website: https://www.hooklee.com/