LI Bin received his Bachelor and Master Degrees in Physics from Peking University in 1985 and 1988, respectively.  In 1990, he joined China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP) to study the technical aspects of arms control as a Ph.D. student and he also began to serve as a part-time assistant staff on arms control at the Committee of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND, now called General Equipment Department).  In 1993, he received his Ph.D. in physics and entered the Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (IAPCM) as a research fellow.  He then joined the COSTIND technical group supporting Chinese negotiation team on Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).  In 1994, Dr. Li received a two-year Post-doctoral Fellowship on Peace and Security in a Changing Word awarded by the Social Science Research Council / Mac Arthur Foundation.  He then spent his first fellowship year at the Defense and Arms Control Studies Program (now Security Studies Program) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the second year at the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at Princeton University.   In the summer of 1996, Dr. Li went back to IAPCM in Beijing, where he was appointed as the director of a newly-established Arms Control Division and the executive deputy director of the Program for Science and National Security Studies.  Dr. Li attended the last round of CTBT negotiations as a technical advisor to the Chinese negotiation team in 1996.  In 1999, Dr. Li left IAPCM to establish a research center, Institute of Science and Public Affairs based at China Youth College for Political Science.  At the end of 2000, Dr. Li joined the faculty of Tsinghua University.  Now he is professor and Vice Chair of the Department of International Relations, Deputy Director of the Institute of International Studies, and the director of Arms Control Program, Tsinghua University. At Tsinghua University, he teaches arms control and international security, quantitative analysis in international studies, science and technology in international security. 

            Since 1990, Dr. Li has been working on various arms control issues including space arms control, nuclear test ban, missile defenses, deep nuclear reductions and Chinese-US nuclear relations.  He has published tens of papers on arms control issues on Chinese and international journals.  He has published two books (1) Arms Control Theories and Analysis and (2) International Strategy and National Security -- A Technical Perspective.  Professor Li is on the editorial boards of Science and Global Security, Nonproliferation Review and on the boards of China Arms Control and Disarmament Association and China-U.S. People’s Friendship Association.