Xiang-Yang Li, Ph.D. (CS @ UIUC)
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science,
Illinois Institute of Technology
10, West 31st Street, Chicago, IL, 60616

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Awards

  1. Best Demo Award, ACM MobiCom 2012, FLIGHT: Clock Calibration Using Fluorescent Lighting, Zhenjiang Li, Cheng Li, Wenwei Chen, Jingyao Dai, and Mo Li (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Xiang-Yang Li (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA); and Yunhao Liu (Tsinghua University, China)
  2. Dean's Excellence in Research Award in 2011, College of Science and Letters, IIT
  3. China National Natural Science Foundation of Overseas Young Scholars Cooperation Research Fund (Outstanding Young Researcher-B, In PingYin: HaiWai Ji Gang'Ao XueZhe HeZuo YanJiu JiJin XianMu), 2008.
  4. A best paper candidate for ACM MobiCom 2008, for paper Capacity of Large Scale Wireless Networks Under Gaussian Channel Model, (Acceptance Ratio: 31 out of 264); one of 4 best paper candidates.
  5. Best paper session in ACM MobiCom 2005, for paper "A Unified Energy Efficient Topology for Unicast and Broadcast"; one of three candidates.
  6. Best paper award of 35th Hawaii International Conference on System Science 2001 (HICSS'35).
  7. Hao Wang Award of 7th Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference 2001 (COCOON'01).
  8. The first place of JiangSu Province in junior (high-school) mathematics competition, 1989 and 1990, China.


Funding

  1. CMMI 1436786: Collaboratve Research: Coordinated Real-Time Trafc Management based on Dynamic Informaton Propagaton and Aggregaton under Connected Vehicle Systems
    a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation.
    PI: Lili Du, Co-PI: Xiang-Yang Li, $240,000.
  2. NSF 1343306, EARS: Modeling and Analysis of Radar / Communications Spectrum Sharing Opportunities, a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation.
    PI: Dennis Roberson, Co-PI: Cindy Hood and Xiang-Yang Li, $512,169.
  3. NSF 1247944, EARS: Providing Predictable Service and Spectrum Access With Realtime Decision in Cognitive Multihop Wireless Networks, a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation.
    PI: Xiang-Yang Li, Co-PI: Erdal Eruklu. $498,122.
  4. PRC NSFC: China National Natural Science Foundation of Overseas Young Scholars Cooperation Research Fund (Outstanding Young Researcher-B). National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61228202).
    PI: Xiang-Yang Li, Co-PI: JiZhong Zhao. 2013.1.1-2014.12.30, RMB 200,000.
  5. USA NSF 1035894, CPS:Medium: The Study of and Methodology Development for Loosely Coupled Networked Control Systems with Disturbances, NSF CNS-1035894,
    PI: Xiang-Yang Li, Co-PIs: ShangPing Ren, Paul Anderson, and Fouad Teymour. 2010.09.15 - 2013.09.14. $750,000.00,
  6. USA NSF 0832120, NeTS-NECO: Some Fundamental Problems for Performance Study of Opportunistic Spectrum Utilization, NSF CNS-0832120,
    PI: Xiang-Yang Li, 2009.1.1 - 2011.12.30. $249,982.00,
  7. PRC NSFC: China National Natural Science Foundation of Overseas Young Scholars Cooperation Research Fund (Outstanding Young Researcher-B). National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.60828003).
    PI: Xiang-Yang Li, Co-PI: Yong Qi. 2009.1.1-2010.12.30, RMB 200,000; 2010.12.30-2014.12.30, to be determined.
  8. HK RGC: Explore Business Models for Streaming Applications in Peer-to-Peer Environments.
    PI: Wei Lou, Co-PI: Xiang-Yang Li. CERG under Grant PolyU-5232/07E. 01-01-2008 to 31-12-2009, HK$ 378,400.
  9. HK RGC: Effective and Efficient Environment Monitoring in Wireless Sensor Networks,
    PI: YunHao Liu, Co-PI: Xiang-Yang Li. Hong Kong RGC CERG HKUST6169/07E, Sep. 1, 2007- Aug. 31, 2009. HK$ 489,445 (US$ 70K),
  10. HK RGC: A Microeconomic Approach for Digital Rights Management in P2P Networks,
    PI: XiaoWen Chu, Co-PI: Xiang-Yang Li. RGC HKBU 210406, from 01-09-2006 to 28-02-2009, HK$356,000.
  11. USA NSF: Prefix-Free Vertex Coloring for Channel Assignment in OVSF-CDMA Wire-less Ad Hoc Networks.
    PI: Peng-Jun Wan, Co-PI: Xiang-Yang Li. NSF Grant CCR-0311174. 2003-2006. $187,474.00.
  12. USA NSF: International Workshop on Theoretical Aspects of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Peer-to-Peer Networks.
    PI: Xiang-Yang Li. 2003. $20,000.00

(short list) The research of Xiang-Yang Li is partially supported by NSF CNS-0832120, NSF CNS-1035894, NSF ECCS-1247944, National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61170216, No. 61228202, China 973 Program under Grant No.2011CB302705.

(long list) The research of Xiang-Yang Li is partially supported by NSF CNS-0832120, NSF CNS-1035894, NSF ECCS-1247944, National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 60828003, No. 61170216, No. 61228202, program for Zhejiang Provincial Key Innovative Research Team, program for Zhejiang Provincial Overseas High-Level Talents (One-hundred Talents Program), National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) under grant No. 2010CB328100 and 2010CB334707, and funded by Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (TNList). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in our work are those of author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies (NSF, and NSFC).