Profile
Dr. Ping Ji earned her bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Technology from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, and completed her PhD in Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst under the advisement of Distinguished Professors Jim Kurose and Don Towsley. She joined the City University of New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in Fall 2003 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008 and Full Professor in 2010. Concurrently, at the CUNY Graduate Center, Dr. Ji served as Executive Officer of the Computer Science PhD Program and Director of the Master’s Program in Data Science from 2018 to 2025.
Over her 20+ year career at CUNY, Dr. Ji has led numerous academic and administrative initiatives. She is a founding faculty member and major contributor to John Jay College’s Master’s Program in Digital Forensics and Cybersecurity, and the founding director of the Graduate Center’s Master’s Program in Data Science. Dr. Ji’s research interests include network measurement and data analysis, security monitoring for computer and wireless networks, network security, mobile networks, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Her work has appeared in leading journals and conferences, including IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGKDD, and Performance Evaluation. She has secured more than $3 million in research funding and awards, with current projects supported by the National Science Foundation and Google.