Li Ding is co-founder of Memect LLC, with a mission to facilitate people to discover and connect things they like. He was a staff engineer at the Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. His past research is focused on mobile computing, Semantic Web, linked open government data, knowledge representation, semantic search, knowledge management systems, fusing structured information and text on the Web, privacy, provenance and trust. He is a former research scientist in the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a former Kodak postdoctoral fellow in the Knowledge Systems, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (KSL) at Stanford University. He holds PhD degree from University of Maryland Baltimore County and MS,BS degrees form Peking University. Being an early adopter of the Semantic Web, he has published over 70 refereed papers and received over 1600 citations (source: Google Scholar). He is current or past program committee member of international conferences including WWW, ISWC, AAAI and CIKM. Research Interests: Mobile Computing; Social Semantic Web; Linked Data; Linked Open Government Data; Semantic Web; Ontology; Provenance; Privacy; Semantic Search; Knowledge Management Systems; Data Preservation.