Dr. Yongli Zhao is a full Professor at the School of Electronic Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He received B.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing, China, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. Subsequently, he became an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Information Photonics and Optical Communications at BUPT. From 2014 to 2018, he was an Associate Professor at the Institute of Information Photonics and Optical Communications at BUPT. In 2018, he became a full Professor at the Institute of Information Photonics and Optical Communications at BUPT. He is currently a full Professor at the School of Electronic Engineering at BUPT. From January 2016 to January 2017, he was a visiting Associate Professor at UC Davis. He has been granted 16 awards from the government and 6 academic awards. He also won the Gold Medal at the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions in 2021. He is a fellow member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a senior member of the Optical Society of America (OSA). His current research focuses on F5G, satellite optical communication networks, software-defined optical networks, elastic optical networks, data datacenter networking, machine learning in optical networks, optical network security, and quantum key distribution networking.