Scholar
Jian Li
Google Scholar ID: h039Yq4AAAAJ
Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,264
H-index
24
i10-index
46
Publications
20
Co-authors
26
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2024) and NSF CISE CRII Award (2021). His research has been recognized with several awards, including the ACM/IEEE SC'24 Best Student Paper Finalist, the ACM e-Energy'21 Best Paper Runner-Up Award, and the IEEE MASCOTS'18 Best Paper Runner-Up Award. His research has been supported by NSF, ARO, NIH, and DOE.
Research Experience
- Currently an Assistant Professor of Data Science in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University, SUNY. Also a core faculty member of the AI Innovation Institute (AI3) and affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS). Previously, he was an assistant professor at SUNY-Binghamton and a postdoctoral researcher at the College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, hosted by Prof. Don Towsley.
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2016, supervised by Prof. Srinivas Shakkottai; B.E. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2012.
Background
- Research Interests: Reinforcement Learning, Multi-Armed Bandits, Federated/Decentralized Learning, Stochastic Optimization and Control, RL with Human Feedback (RLHF) and Alignment for Large Language Models (LLMs), RL for LLM Reasoning and Agentic AI. Systems and Security: Large-Scale Networked and Trustworthy Intelligent Systems including LLMs, smart health, wireless networks, edge and cloud computing, caching and content delivery, serverless computing and Internet-of-Things.
Miscellany
- Actively looking for highly motivated Ph.D. students and postdocs with strong background in machine learning; Delivered invited talks at various academic conferences and workshops; Served as an Area Chair or Program Committee member for multiple international conferences.
