Dr. Li joined the University of Maryland, College Park as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Aug. 2023. During the deferral time before joining, he was a research associate at Qualcomm AI Research.

Dr. Li received his Ph.D. in 2022 from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Duke University. Li has also earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Arkansas. He has an MS in Management of Innovation and Venture Capital from Peking University, and a BS in Computer Science from Henan University in China.

His research interests lie in the intersection of machine learning and edge computing, with a focus on building large-scale networked and trustworthy intelligent systems to solve practical problems in a collaborative, scalable, secure, and ubiquitous manner. Dr. Li has been recognized with a variety of awards, including the IEEE TCCPS Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award, ACM KDD Best Student Paper Award in 2020, and the 2022-2023 Duke ECE Department Outstanding Dissertation Award.

My research interests lie in the intersection of machine learning and edge computing, with a focus on building large-scale networked and trustworthy intelligent systems to solve practical problems in a collaborative, scalable, secure, and ubiquitous manner.

Federated Learning

Distributed Machine Learning

Machine Learning System

Edge Computing

AI for IoT

Trustworthy Machine Learning

A list of publications can be found on Google Scholar.

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