Vice Director, Industry Standards Dept. Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.
As the vice director of the Industry Standards Department at Huawei, Thomas Lee (Li Li) is responsible for policies on 3GPP, IEEE, WiMAX Forum, ITU-R WP5D (past as WP8F), NGMN and 3GPP2. He is also responsible for standard strategies of major projects including WiMAX, LTE/SAE/IMS, IMT-Advanced and NGSON. Besides these areas, his management scope also covers IPTV, MPEG, and ITU-T SG16 and SG12. He is a member of IEEE-SA Corporate Advisory Group (CaG) in 2007 to 2009, as well as a member of IEEE-SA BoG International Ad Hoc in 2009.
Li has worked at Huawei for 12 years, with experience in wireless product development, R&D information system and document center management, business re-engineering of R&D processes, standardization and corporate strategy. For the past 9 years, he has distinguished himself as the standard policy-maker and a technology strategist inside the company. Li was one of the original founders of the Industry Standards Department and has cultivated some core members of the standard teams. He was a leader on Huawei’s overall standard strategy and standard policies on IMT-2000, WiMAX, service network and IMT-Advanced. As a core member of the corporate strategy circle, he has taken part in corporate-level technology strategies in recent years.
Li received his bachelor’s degree in radio technologies from Xi’an Jiaotong University, and his Master of Business Administration degree from Tsinghua University.
