Lei Jiao is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oregon. His research has been supported by funds from the National Science Foundation, including the CAREER award, and the industry. His publications often appear in leading journals such as JSAC, ToN, TMC, and TPDS, and conferences such as INFOCOM, MOBIHOC, SECON, ICNP, ICDCS, and IPDPS. He was a recipient of the Ripple Faculty Fellowship, the Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs UK and Ireland Recognition Award, and the Best Paper Awards of IEEE CNS 2019 and IEEE LANMAN 2013. He was a guest editor of JSAC. He has been on the program committees as a track (co-)chair for ICDCS and as a member for conferences such as INFOCOM, MOBIHOC, ICDCS, WWW, and IWQoS. He has also served as the program chair of multiple workshops with INFOCOM and ICDCS. Previously he worked at Nokia Bell Labs in Ireland. He completed his Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) degree in computer science (Informatik) at the University of Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), Germany, where his research was part of the EU projects.