Zhitang Li was born in Jianli, China in 1951, and received his M.E. degree in Computer Architecture from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, 1987, and PhD degree in Computer Architecture from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, 1992. His research interests include computer architecture, network security and P2P networks.
He is currently the director of China Education and Research Network (CERNET) in Central China. He was a vice president of Department of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. He has published more than one hundred papers in the areas of computer architecture, network security and P2P networks.