Professor Jingye Li, born in November 1978, currently serves as the assistant to the president of China University of Petroleum (Beijing) and the executive vice dean of the Graduate School. He is also the director of a branch office of the National Engineering Research Center for Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration. He has won many awards, such as the first prize of Beijing Municipal Teaching Achievement Award, the first prize of Teaching Achievement Award of the China Petroleum Education Society, and the grand prize of Tianjin Science and Technology Progress Award. He has conducted theoretical and practical explorations in the areas of graduate education and teaching management, engineering education reform, and discipline construction. He is currently a standing director of the Beijing Association of Higher Education, the secretary-general of the Talent Selection and Evaluation Committee of the Chinese Society of Academic Degrees and Graduate Education, and a member of the Professional Committee of Graduate Pedagogy.