I am pleased to present my candidacy for the co-chair of the Routing Security Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC). With more than a decade of research and operational experience in Internet architecture and routing security, I am enthusiastic about the opportunity to make an ongoing contribution to the APNIC community.

In the early 2010s, there was a divergence of views on how to construct a secure Internet. Some individuals believed that we should create a novel and fundamentally secure Internet architecture from the clean slate, while others favored evolution over revolution. I commenced my Ph.D. program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign around the same time. I investigated both approaches, developing innovative secure routing protocols that were fundamentally different from the BGP while also considering incremental security improvements to the existing infrastructure. In hindsight, both viewpoints are invaluable and have contributed to my understanding of Internet architecture.

Following the successful defense of my doctoral dissertation, I assumed a position within the network infrastructure team at Google Cloud. During my tenure there, I embarked upon the design, deployment, and management of one of the world's most extensive wide area networks (named B4) and data center networks (named Jupiter). In collaboration with my esteemed colleagues, we accomplished the remarkable feat of substantially expanding the capacity of both B4 and Jupiter by various factors, while simultaneously achieving unprecedented levels of network availability through the implementation of software-defined routing protocols. These invaluable experiences gained from working with real-world, large-scale network infrastructure at Google have served to enhance and refine my professional skill set.

In my current capacity as an Associate Professor at Tsinghua University and CERNET, I have the privilege of co-leading a dynamic team comprised of researchers, network architects, network engineers, and graduate students. Our collective efforts are dedicated to the continuous advancement of Internet architecture, with routing security as our paramount concern. Notably, our team recently developed a novel secure routing protocol, named FC-BGP, which is specifically designed for partial deployment. This innovative protocol was presented at both the APNIC 56 Routing Security SIG Forum and the IETF 116/117 meetings. We are sincerely grateful for the valuable feedback received from our community. Moreover, our team was recently honored with the prestigious USENIX Security 2024 Internet Defense Prize, as well as a Distinguished Paper Award, in recognition of our work in developing a BGP anomaly measurement platform.

In the event of my election as Co-Chair, I am committed to the missions and objectives of the routing security SIG. My vision involves the creation of a collaborative platform that fosters the exchange of knowledge, insights, and experiences among the world's foremost network researchers and practitioners, with the shared goal of enhancing the security of Internet routing.

I express my sincere gratitude for the consideration of my candidacy, and I am filled with excitement at the prospect of serving as the co-chair of the routing security SIG.