Xiang-yang Li

Biography

Dr. Xiang-Yang Li is a professor at School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China. He was elected as IEEE Fellow (class 2015), and ACM Distinguished Scientist (class 2015) in 2014. He was a full professor at Computer Science Department of Illinois Institute of Technology, and served as an EMC Visiting Chair Professor at Tsinghua University (2014.01 to 2015.12), a distinguished visiting scientist at TNLIST (Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology), Tsinghua University from 2009-2011; a visiting professor of Microsoft Research Asia from May, 2007 to August 2008; and was also a visiting professor at HongKong Baptist University, and HongKong University of Science and Technology from 2006-2007. He is recipient of China NSF Outstanding Overseas Young Researcher (B) in 2008 and 2012. Dr. Li received MS (2000) and PhD (2001) degree at Department of Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received a Bachelor degree at Department of Computer Science and a Bachelor degree at Department of Business Management from Tsinghua University, P.R. China, both in 1995. He was a member of the gifted student class (with 20 students in total) in China prepared for the International Mathematics Olympics (IMO) from 1988 to 1990. 

Research Interest

Dr. Li’s research interests include wireless networks, mobile computing, privacy and security, cyber physical systems, the social networking, and algorithms. He published a monograph "Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: Theory and Applications". He also co-edited the book "Encyclopedia of Algorithms".