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Xiang Li, PhD

Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department
College of Engineering, Santa Clara University

Mailing address: Santa Clara University, Computer Science and Engineering Department, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053, SCDI: Bergin

Office: 109 Bergin Hall

Email: xli8@scu.edu

Phone: 1(408) 554-6805

Position Available: I am looking for self-motivated and hardworking Ph.D. students and postdocs who are interested in tackling challenges in the areas of Cyber-Physical Systems, Online Social Network analysis, Cyber-security with a focus on data science, algorithms and network optimization.

Short Bio

Xiang Li is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in Santa Clara University. She received her Ph.D. degree from University of Florida, her research interests are centered on the large-scale optimization and its intersection with cyber-security of networking systems, big data analysis, and cyber physical systems. More specifically, the focus of her research is to develop models, theories, and data-driven optimization algorithms for many computationally hard problems in Online Social Networks, Device-to-Device Networks, Internet of Things, and Smart Grids. She has published over 30 articles in various prestigious journals and conferences such as IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grids, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICDM, including Best Paper Awards in IEEE SocialSec 2018 and IEEE MSN 2014, and Best Paper Nominee at IEEE ICDCS 2017.
Xiang is an associate editor for Journal of Combinatorial Optimization. She has served as a reviewer for several journals such as IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Computer Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Networks Science and Engineering, IEEE Internet of Things Journal and Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, etc. She is a recipient of many awards, including NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) award, UF Graduate School Fellowship, UF Informatics Institute Fellowship, UF Outstanding Merits Award, Travel Grant Awards at ACM SIGMETRICS, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE ICDM, and IEEE INFOCOM Best-in-Section-Presentation Award.

News

Successfully hosted WiDS conference in Santa Clara, 08/25/2023
Successfully hosted WiDS conference in Santa Clara, 05/07/2022
Served as a panelist for NSF III
Successfully hosted the first WiDS conference in Santa Clara, 05/08/2021
Served as a panelist for NSF CPS
Received NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) award, Sole PI
Successfully secured one grant: “Emerging security concerns in data-driven networks”, SCU, Sole PI
Served as Associate Editor for Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
Served as Associate Editor for Computational Social Networks Journal
Served as TPC Member for 2019 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS) Workshop
Paper Resource Allocation in Highly Dynamic Device-to-Device Communication: An Adaptive Set Multi-cover Approach accepted by IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Conference presentation in IEEE ICDCS 2019
Paper An Approximation Algorithm for Active Friending in Online Social Networks accepted by ICDCS 2019
Paper Adaptive Crawling with Cautious Users accepted by ICDCS 2019
Served as TPC member for 2019 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
Paper TipTop:(Almost) Exact Solutions for Influence Maximization in Billion-Scale Networks accepted by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
Conference presentation in IEEE SocialSec 2018
Paper Adaptive Crawling in Online Social Networks: a Matrix Factorization Based Approach won best paper award at IEEE SocialSec 2018
Served as Session Chair for ACM SIGMETRICS International Workshop (2018)
Served as Publicity Co-Chair for 2018 International Conference on Computational Data & Social Networks (CSoNet)
Served as TPC member for 2018 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) workshop on BLOCKSEA
Served as TPC member for 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data (SocialSec)
Served as TPC member of 2018 International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Application (COCOA)

Honors and Awards

NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) award, 2020
Provost Publication Grant, Santa Clara University, 2019
US National Science Foundation (NSF) Travel Grant Award for ACM SIGMETRICS, 2018
US National Science Foundation (NSF) Travel Grant Award for IEEE INFOCOM, 2018
Outstanding Merits Award in University of Florida, 2017
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM) Travel Grant Award, 2017
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) Best Paper Award Nomination, 2017
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) Travel Grant Award, 2017
Gartner Group Info Tech Scholarship, 2017
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Best-in-Session-Presentation Award, 2017
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Travel Grant Award, 2017
Travel Grant Award from UF CISE, 2017
UF Informatics Institute Graduate Student Fellowship, 2016-2018
Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN), 2014
Graduate School Fellowship Award in University of Florida, 2012-2016
Excellent Student Leader in Chinese Academy of Sciences (top 2%), 2011
Excellent Student in Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2011
Outstanding Student Award (top 1%), 2009
First prize Scholarship (top 2%), 2008
Top students for Best Stars Award (top 1‰), 2008
First prize for the Northeast Three Provinces Union Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2008
Second prize for China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM), 2007
Second prize Scholarship, 2007
Second prize for the Northeast Three Provinces Union Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2007