Dr. Ming-Jun Li joined Corning in 1991 and is currently a Corporate Fellow. He has contributed to many single-mode and multi-mode fiber products for optical communications and specialty fibers for different applications. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of Optica (formerly OSA) and IEEE. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2020. He has served as Associate Editor and Coordinating Committee Member, and currently is Deputy Editor, for the Journal of Lightwave Technology. He has also served as a guest editor for several special issues and as a committee chair or member at many international conferences. He holds 250 US patents, has published six book chapters, and has authored over 350 technical papers.