Editing Li Gong (computer scientist) (section)

==Career==

Li Gong started his career as a researcher, primarily in the fields of computer systems, networking, and information security. He was both program chair and general conference chair for ACM CCS, IEEE S&P, and IEEE CSFW. He was associate editor of ACM TISSEC and associate editor-in-chief of IEEE Internet Computing. Before going into the industry, he first worked at Odyssey Research in Ithaca, New York, and later at the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI International in Menlo Park, California.{{Citation needed|date = December 2015}} He held visiting positions at Cornell and Stanford and was a guest chair professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing.

In 1996, he joined the [[JavaSoft]] division at [[Sun Microsystems]] (in [[Cupertino, California]]) as chief Java security architect and designed the security architecture of the Java platform.{{Citation needed|date = December 2015}} He became a distinguished engineer and later headed engineering for Java Embedded Server and [[JXTA]], and was the founding chair of the Java Expert Group at the international standard organization [[OSGi]] and led the OSGi 1.0 specification.

In 2001, he founded the [[Sun Microsystems]] Engineering and Research Institute (ERI) in China, where he was [[general manager]] and led the team working on Solaris system, browser, OpenOffice and related desktop software research and development.

In 2005, he joined [[Microsoft]] as general manager to lead [[MSN]] in China and served as vice president of the Microsoft China R&D Group. He led Beijing and Shanghai teams working in many areas across all the services MSN offered — including Messenger, [[Hotmail]], Spaces, Safety, Mobile, Search, Ads platform, and Virtual Earth.

In 2007, Gong joined [[Mozilla Corporation]] to found its China subsidiary [[Mozilla Online]] Ltd where he was chairman and [[CEO]]. Four years later, he founded [[Mozilla Taiwan]] and was [[CEO]]. Later, he worked in a number of executive roles at Mozilla’s headquarters, including senior vice president of mobile devices, president of Asia operations,<ref>{{cite web|title=Gearing up for the Next Chapter|url=https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/04/10/gearing-up-for-the-next-chapter/}}</ref> [[chief operating officer]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Mozilla Leadership Changes|url=https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/03/24/mozilla-leadership-changes/}}</ref> and president.

He left Mozilla in April 2015, and started [[Acadine Technologies]], initially under the name "Gone Fishing".<ref name=":1" /> It was announced on July 15, 2015 that Acadine Technologies received $100M of first-round funding from [[Tsinghua Unigroup International]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Mobile OS Company Acadine Technologies Receives $100M First-Round Funding from Tsinghua Unigroup International|url=http://www.acadine.com/en-US/news/acadine-news-20150715-first-round-funding.html|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723123554/http://www.acadine.com/en-US/news/acadine-news-20150715-first-round-funding.html|archivedate=2015-07-23}}</ref> a Hong Kong entity controlled by [[Tsinghua University]] and the Chinese government.<ref name=":0"/> In the same year, Li Gong stated that the company was already seeking a second round of funding from international investors, a main rationale being "to dispel very early the incorrect perception that we are somehow a China-backed company. We are really a pure Silicon Valley-style startup".<ref name=":0"/>

Li participated (as co-founder, investor, and advisor) in a number of startups in the Silicon Valley and in China. He was venture partner and head of the China office for the US venture capital firm [[Bessemer Venture Partners]] from 2007 to 2009.{{Citation needed|date = December 2015}}