Funding

  1. NSF CNS 1526638: Designing Sustainable Battery-Free Multi-Hop Sensing Networks.
    a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation.
    PI: Xiang-Yang Li, $475,000.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. USA NSF REU Supplement, NSF 1247944, EARS: Providing Predictable Service and Spectrum Access With Realtime Decision in Cognitive Multihop Wireless Networks, $8,000, 2012-2014
  6. 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.
  7. China, WuXi City Government, Project "Joint Research Lab of Internet of Things by WuXi City and TNLIST", PIs: YunHao Liu, Xiang-Yang Li. Amount: about $3M, (it is about 20M Chinese Yuan RMB).
  8. 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,
  9. China, 973 Program (Ministry of Science and Technology of China), “Architeture and Theory for Information Service”, PI: ChangJun Jiang, Co-PI and some of the team members in one subproject: Yueyu Du, Zhijun Ding, Zhehu Wu, Charu Sun, and Xiang-Yang Li (I am Co-PI of one sub-project in the whole project). (2010 to 2014). Total amount for the whole project is about $2M, (15M Chinese Yuan RMB).
  10. 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,
  11. USA NSF REU Supplement for NSF NeTS-NECO: Some Fundamental Problems for Performance Study of Opportunistic Spectrum Utilization, PI: Xiang-Yang Li, $16000, 2009-2010.
  12. 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;
  13. P.R. China, ZheJiang Province, ”Innovation Team For Sensor Networking”, 2009-2012, PI: Xiang-Yang Li, 7 other Co-PIs. Total support, about $0.5M, (3M Chinese Yuan RMB).
  14. HK RGC: Explore Business Models for Streaming Applications in Peer-to-Peer Environments.
    PI: Wei Lou, Co-PI: Xiang-Yang Li. CERG under Grant PolyU-5232/07E. 01-01-2008 to 31-12-2009, HK$ 378,400.
  15. 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),
  16. 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.
  17. USA NSF REU: Prefix-Free Vertex Coloring for Channel Assignment in OVSF-CDMA Wire-less Ad Hoc Networks. PIs: Peng-Jun Wan and Xiang-Yang Li (06/01/2005 to 07/31/2006). $12,000
  18. 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.
  19. 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

The research of Xiang-Yang Li is partially supported by NSF CNS-0832120, NSF CNS-1035894, NSF ECCS-1247944, NSF EARS 1343306, NSF CMMI 1436786, NSF CNS-1526638, 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).


Projects:

  1. NSF 1343306, EARS: Modeling and Analysis of Radar / Communications Spectrum Sharing Opportunities a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation. This research effort focuses on the impact that 4G/LTE wireless devices (e.g. cell towers and smart phones) may have on radar altimeters operating in the 4200-4400 MHz spectral band. To obtain this understanding, a significant spectrum measurement campaign will be undertaken focused on appropriate radar altimeter systems and on 4G/LTE systems.
  2. 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. The objective of this project is to design real-time temporal-spatial spectrum sharing, trading and accessing schemes to provide predictable service and improve the network performances by fully exploiting the channel availability (e.g., spatial, temporal, and spectral) and quality (e.g., signal to interference plus noise ratio and data rate) diversities using cognitive radio techniques.
  3. NSF 1035894, CPS "Managing Loosely Coupled Networked Control Systems with External Disturbances", led by IIT Computer Science Professors, Xiang-Yang Li and Shangping Ren, together with two IIT Engineering faculty, Professor Paul Anderson from the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering and Professor Fouad Teymour from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, collaborated with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago. This is an NSF funded CPS medium project with PI Xiang-Yang Li.
  4. CitySee project: a large scale sensor networks for monitoring city environment. This is a project collaborated with Y. Liu from Tsinghua and several other faculty, supported by WuXi government and NSF of China.
  5. NSF 0832120, NeTS-NECO: Some Fundamental Problems for Performance Study of Opportunistic Spectrum Utilization, with PI Xiang-Yang Li. This work will develop, design, and implement efficient wireless network protocols for better spectrum utilization and study some fundamental performance bounds for networks with opportunistic spectrum utilization.
  6. GreenObs for forest monitoring (collaboration with YunHao Liu from HKUST, JiZhong Zhao from Xi'An JiaoTong, Ming Gu from Tsinghua, GuoMo Zhou from Zhejiang Forestry Univ, GuoJun Dai from HangZhou DianZi, HuaDong Ma from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications).
  7. OceanSense, Sensor Network for Sea Monitoring (collaboration with YunHao Liu from HKUST).


Awards (Best Paper Awards, Candidates, Research Awards)

  1. BigCom 2015 Best Paper Runner-up, for paper "A Framework for Optimization in Big Data: Privacy-preserving Multi-agent Greedy Algorithm", by Taeho Jung, Xiang-Yang Li, Junze Han.
  2. Best Paper Award, IEEE IPCCC 2014, Network Agile Preference-Based Prefetching for Mobile Devices, by Junze Han, Xiang-Yang Li, Taeho Jung, Jumin zhao, Zenghua Zhao, published at IEEE IPCCC, 2014 (33rd IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference).
  3. Best Paper Award, ACM MobiCom 2014, Tagoram: Real-Time Tracking of Mobile RFID Tags to High Precision Using COTS Devices, by Lei Yang, Yekui Chen, Xiang-Yang Li, Chaowei Xiao, Mo Li, Yunhao Liu.
  4. 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)
  5. Dean's Excellence in Research Award in 2011, College of Science and Letters, IIT
  6. 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), 2012.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Best paper session in ACM MobiCom 2005, for paper "A Unified Energy Efficient Topology for Unicast and Broadcast"; one of three candidates.
  10. Best paper award of 35th Hawaii International Conference on System Science 2001 (HICSS'35).
  11. Hao Wang Award of 7th Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference 2001 (COCOON'01).
  12. The first place of JiangSu Province in junior (high-school) mathematics competition, 1989 and 1990, China.