Gong Li also known in English

English language

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 as Li Gong, is the Chairman and CEO of Mozilla Online Ltd in Beijing

Beijing

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, the Chinese subsidiary of Mozilla Corporation

Mozilla Corporation

The Mozilla Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates and integrates the development of Internet-related applications such as the Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey Navigator web browsers and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client by a growing global community of...

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Mozilla Online's goal is to promote the aims of Mozilla Foundation

Mozilla Foundation

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 and increase the adoption of the Firefox web browser

Web browser

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Biography

• Li Gong was born in 1963 and raised in Beijing
  Beijing
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• Received his bachelor and masters degrees at Tsinghua University
  Tsinghua University
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• Received his PhD at University of Cambridge
  University of Cambridge
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  , where he worked with Roger Needham
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   and David Wheeler
• Began his career as a researcher, and served as chairmans of several IEEE and ACM
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   conferences
• In 1996, he joined as Chief Java Security Architect the JavaSoft division at Sun Microsystems
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   (in Cupertino, California
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  ). He became a Distinguished Engineer and later a senior engineering director and headed engineering for JES and JXTA
  JXTA
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• In 2001, he returned to Beijing to start up Sun Microsystems Engineering and Research Institute (ERI) and served as its General Manager
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• In 2005 he joined Microsoft
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   as General Manager to lead MSN
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   in China.
• In 2007, he joined Mozilla
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   to found Mozilla Online Ltd.

Achievements and awards

Li has 14 US patents, is the co-author of three books (published by Addison Wesley and O’Reilly) and many technical articles.

In 1994, he received the IEEE Communications Society

IEEE Communications Society

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 Leonard G. Abraham Award given for "the most significant contribution to technical literature in the field of interest of the IEEE."

China Internet Weekly and Sina.com

Sina.com

SINA is an online media company for China and Chinese communities around the world. SINA operates four major business lines: Sina Weibo, SINA Mobile, SINA Online, and SINA.net. SINA has over 100 million registered users worldwide...

 named him as one of the "2003 China New Economy People", and in the same year received the China Open Source Movement Leadership Award  by CCID Consulting

CCID Consulting

CCID Consulting Co., Ltd. is China's largest research, consulting and IT outsourcing service company, and the first Chinese consulting firm listed in Hong Kong Stock Exchange.-Location:...

 and the China Software Industry Association

China Software Industry Association

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Until 2007, he was the founding chair of the Beijing chapter of TEEC (Tsinghua Entrepreneur and Executive Club) of Tsinghua University

Tsinghua University

Tsinghua University , colloquially known in Chinese as Qinghua, is a university in Beijing, China. The school is one of the nine universities of the C9 League. It was established in 1911 under the name "Tsinghua Xuetang" or "Tsinghua College" and was renamed the "Tsinghua School" one year later...

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External links

• Mozilla and China - Li Gong's blog
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