Dr. Mingshu Li received a Ph.D degree from the Department of Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology; also a Master degree (secondary one) in Economics from Department of Social Sciences at the same university. He took his post-doctoral research in Institute of Software at the Chinese Academy of Sciences during 1993-1995 and Department of Artificial Intelligence at University of Edinburgh during 1995-1996, respectively. He is Research Professor, Chief Scientist of Internet Software Technologies, and the Director of the Institute of Software at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is Standing Member of China Computer Federation (CCF), Advisor of the Beijing Government, and Standing Member of the All-China Youth Federation.

His major research interests are software process technology, software engineering methodology, requirements engineering, and software engineering economics. He has published and co-authored more than one hundred research papers, and was awarded the second prize of Year 2005 National Science and Technology Progress. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of Software.