Xiang-Yang Li, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Office: Stuart Building 237D
Office Hours:
Phone: 312.567.5207
Fax: 312.567.5067
Email: xli@cs.iit.edu
Web: http://www.cs.iit.edu/~xli

Expertise

Algorithm design and analysis for networks, wireless sensor networks, computational geometry, game theory.

Education

Curriculum Vitae

Research & Major Accomplishments

Has published extensively at the top conferences for computer networking and also for theoretical computing, e.g., ACM MobiCom, ACM MobiHoc, IEEE INFOCOM, etc. He was named twice as best paper candidate by ACM MobiCom and received several best paper awards from international conferences. His research has been supported by US NSF, HongKong RGC, and NSF of China. Recently he was also named Overseas Young Outstanding Researcher by NSF China. His students have gone into careers at research labs and as tenure track-assistant professors.

Current Projects

OceanSense, NSF China
GreenObs, NSF ZheJiang Province, China

Awards/Honors

China's Young Outstanding Overseas Researcher (Information Technology), 2008.
Best paper session in ACM MobiCom 2005.
Best paper candidate for ACM MobiCom 2008.
Best paper award of 35th Hawaii International Conference on System Science 2001 (HICSS'35).
Hao Wang Award of 7th Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference 2001 (COCOON'01).
The first place of JiangSu Province in junior (high-school) mathematics competition, 1989 and 1990, China.

Patents

Books

Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: Theory and Applications, ISBN-13: 9780521865234, Pub. Date: June 2008, Cambridge University Press.
Encyclopedia of Algorithms, edited by Ming-Yang Kao. (Area editor for mobile computing.) ISBN: 978-0-387-30770-1, Springer-Verlag.
Sensor and Ad-Hoc Networks : Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects, by S. Kami Makki (Editor), Xiang-Yang Li (Editor), Niki Pissinou (Editor), Shamila Makki (Editor), Masoumeh Karimi (Editor), Kia Makki (Editor), ISBN-13: 9780387773193. Pub. Date: July 2008.
Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management: Third International Conference, AAIM 2007, Portland OR, USA, June 6-8, 2007, Proceedings.

Selected Publications

Shi Li, YunHao Liu and Xiang-Yang Li. Capacity of Large Scale Wireless Networks Under Gaussian Channel Model. ACM MobiCom, 2008. (Acceptance Ratio: 31 out of 264, 12%. A Best Paper candidate.)

Xiang-Yang Li. Multicast Capacity of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. IEEE/ACM Transaction on Networking, January, 2008. (ACM MobiCom 2007; Acceptance Ratio: 26 out of 233, 11%)

WeiZhao Wang, Yu Wang, Xiang-Yang, WenZhan Song and Ophir Frieder. Efficient Interference-Aware TDMA Link Scheduling for Static Wireless Networks. ACM MobiCom 2006 (Acceptance Ratio: 35 out of 298, 12%)

WeiZhao Wang, Stephan Eidenbez, Yu Wang and Xiang-Yang Li. OURS- Optimal Unicast Routing Systems in Non-Cooperative Wireless Networks. ACM MobiCom 2006 (Acceptance Ratio: 35 out of 298, 12%)

Xiang-Yang Li, Wen-Zhan Song and WeiZhao Wang. A Unified Energy Efficient Topology for Unicast and Broadcast. ACM MobiCom, 2005. (Acceptance Ratio: 23 out of 224, 10%. One of 3 Best Paper candidates.)

Weizhao Wang, Xiang-Yang Li and Yu Wang. Truthful Multicast in Selfish Wireless Networks. ACM MobiCom, 2004. (Acceptance Ratio: 26 out of 327, 7.95%)

Herbert Edelsbrunner, Xiang-Yang Li, Gary Miller, Andreas Stathopoulos, Dafna Talmor, Shang-Hua Teng, Alper Ungor and Noel Walkington. Smoothing and cleaning up slivers. ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC00), 2000.

Xiang-Yang Li and Shang-Hua Teng. Generate Sliver Free Three Dimensional Mesh. Twelfth ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 2001.

Professional Society Memberships

Editorial Board Service

Professional Society Service

President of SoCAPS (Society of Chinese American Professors and Scientists), Chicago Chapter, 2004-present. Council member of SoCAPS, 2005, Oct - present.
Steering Committee member of AAIM: International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management.

Grants

NeTS-NECO: Some Fundamental Problems for Performance Study of Opportunistic Spectrum Utilization. PI: Xiang-Yang Li. National Science Foundation, 01/01/2009 - 12/30/2011, $249,982.00.
China National Natural Science Foundation of Overseas Young Scholars Cooperation Research Fund (Outstanding Young Researcher-B). PI: Xiang-Yang Li, Co-PI: Yong Qi. National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.60828003), 01/01/2009 - 12/30/2010. RMB 200,000, 12/30/2010 - 12/30/2014 (to be determined).
Explore Business Models for Streaming Applications in Peer-to-Peer Environments. PI: Wei Lou, Co-PI: Xiang-Yang Li. Hong Kong RGC CERG under Grant PolyU-5232/07E, 01/01/2008 - 12/31/2009, HK$ 378,400.
Effective and Efficient Environment Monitoring in Wireless Sensor Networks, PI: YunHao Liu, Co-PI: Xiang-Yang Li. Hong Kong RGC CERG HKUST6169/07E, 09/01/2007 - 08/31/2009. HK$ 489,445 (US$ 70K).
A Microeconomic Approach for Digital Rights Management in P2P Networks, PI: XiaoWen Chu, Co-PI: Xiang-Yang Li. HK RGC HKBU 210406, 01/09/2006 - 02/28/2009, HK$356,000.
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.
International Workshop on Theoretical Aspects of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor and Peer-to-Peer Networks. PI: Xiang-Yang Li. National Science Foundation, 2003. $20,000.00