Prof. Baochun Li is an internationally renowned researcher and technology innovator in multimedia systems, networking, cloud computing, and distributed systems. As the Bell Canada Endowed Chair, he has developed the world’s first large-scale deployment of network coding in commercial media streaming systems. Working closely with industry partners such as Bell Canada and Microsoft, his published papers, many of which are highly cited, have attracted over 23000 citations with an H-index of 84. He is an IEEE Fellow, played leadership roles towards automating review assignments in flagship IEEE conferences, and received numerous awards acknowledging his pioneering contributions in network coding systems.