Winner, CORE Award for the Australasian Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation 
Dr Li’s research concerns the design of blockchainbased secure applications. Both examiners recommended her thesis be awarded with special commendation and she was awarded a best thesis award from the Faculty of Engineering and Information Science at the University of Wollongong. Her research addressed four key aspects of blockchain applications: regulation in blockchain-based cryptocurrencies, blockchain-based decentralised e-voting, contractual equivocation in blockchain and privacy protection in stateless blockchain. All the protocols were implemented, and the performance was demonstrated to show the practicality of the techniques. During her PhD, Dr Li published over ten papers in prestigious conferences and journals.