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       Pan Li
        IEEE Fellow, AAIA Fellow
        Associate Professor
        Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
        Case School of Engineering
        Case Western Reserve University
        10900 Euclid Avenue
        Cleveland, OH 44106

        Office: 612 Olin
        Tel: 216-368-0382
        Fax: 216-368-3123
        Email: lipan@case.edu
                                                                       

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“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” — Hamlet, Act 1. Scene V, by William Shakespeare, abt. 1601

News

  • Congratulations to Tianxi, who has accepted an assistant professor position in the Department of Computer Science at Texas Tech University! (06/30/2022)
  • Congratulations to Yifan, who has accepted an assistant professor position in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering at Towson University! (06/30/2022)
  • Congratulations to Dr. Ming Li, our former member, who has been awarded tenure with promotion to Associate Professor! (05/01/2021)
  • Congratulations to Qianlong, who has accepted an assistant professor position in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering at Towson University! (03/31/2021)
  • Congratulations to Kun, who has accepted a Software Developer position at Afterpay, CA! (03/23/2021)
  • Our paper titled “Efficient Secure Outsourcing of Large-scale Sparse Linear Systems of Equations” in IEEE Transactions on Big Data has been selected for the 2020 Best Journal Paper Award by the Big Data Technical Committee, IEEE Communications Society (07/06/2020)
  • Congratulations to Dr. Ming Li, our former member, who has received prestigious NSF CAREER Award! (05/05/2020)
  • Congratulations to Tracy (Xuhui) who successfully defended her dissertation today and has accepted an assistant professor position in the College of Aeronautics and Engineering at Kent State University! (04/26/2019)
  • Congratulations to Changqing who successfully defended his dissertation today and has accepted an assistant professor position in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia CommonWealth University! (06/18/2018)
  • Congratulations to Weixian, who has accepted an assistant professor position in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering at Towson University! (04/20/2018)
  • Congratulations to Ming, our former member, who has accepted an assistant professor position in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington! (04/10/2018)
  • Congratulations to Sheng, who has accepted a Sensor Engineer position with Autoliv, Inc., Auburn Hills, Michigan! (08/05/2016)
  • Our group has joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University! (08/16/2015)
  • Congratulations to Sergio, who has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Wichita State University! (04/20/2015)
  • Congratulations to Arun, who has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tuskegee University! (06/19/2014)
  • Congratulations to Mr. KV Sathya, who has accepted a Field Applications Engineer (Senior Staff) position in Avnet Inc., Raleigh, NC! (06/05/2014)
  • Congratulations to Ming, who has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Nevada, Reno! (03/25/2014)
  • All news

Brief Biography

—Engineers think that equations are an approximation of reality. Physicists think reality is an approximation of the equations. Mathematicians never make the connection.—

Pan Li received the B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in June 2005, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, in August 2009, respectively. Since Fall 2015, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University between August 2009 and August 2015.

He has been serving/served as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Big Data, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications – Cognitive Radio Series, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Computer Networks, and a Feature Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2012.

Research

—For every difficult and complicated question there is an answer that is simple, easily understood, and wrong.—

Dr. Li is leading a Network, Energy, Security, and big daTa research group: NEST. His primary research interests include
  • Network science and economics (e.g., optimization, auction, capacity and connectivity)
  • Energy systems (e.g., stochastic energy management, energy system security)
  • Security and privacy (e.g., distributed systems, machine learning, Internet-of-Things, bioinformatics)
  • Big data (e.g., machine learning, large-scale data analytics and computing, healthcare, social networks)
Below please find his group, publications, and funded research projects:

Current Graduate Students

—Few minds wear out; more rust out.—

Ph.D. Students

  • Yao Fu
  • Runchao Li
  • Xufei Wang
  • Farshid Bagheri Saravi
  • Mu Sheng
  • Alexander Zemskov

Alumni

  • Tianxi Ji, Ph.D., May 2022, Case Western Reserve University
    • Initial employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas Technological University
  • Yifan Guo, Ph.D., May 2022, Case Western Reserve University
    • Initial employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering, Towson University
  • Ben Schoeler, M.S., May 2022, Case Western Reserve University
  • Min Li, M.S., May 2021, Case Western Reserve University
  • Qianlong Wang, Ph.D., August 2021, Case Western Reserve University
    • Initial employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering, Towson University
  • Jinlong Ji, Ph.D., August 2020, Case Western Reserve University
    • Initial employment: Machine Learning Software Engineer, Google Inc.
  • Kun Yang, Ph.D., August 2020, Case Western Reserve University
    • Initial employment: Software Developer, Afterpay, CA
  • Lixing Yu, Ph.D., August 2020, Case Western Reserve University
    • Initial employment: Yunnan University
  • Yue Kang, M.S., May 2020, Case Western Reserve University
  • Tan Li, M.S., May 2020, Case Western Reserve University
  • Lichen Zhang, M.S., December 2020, Case Western Reserve University
  • Yida Liu, M.S., May 2020, Case Western Reserve University
    • Initial employment: ByteDance Ltd., China
  • Yanhan Lin, M.S., December 2019, Case Western Reserve University
  • Xuhui Chen, Ph.D., August 2019, Case Western Reserve University
    • Initial employment: Assistant Professor, College of Aeronautics & Engineering, Kent State University
  • Fengxiang Zhao, M.S., August 2019, Case Western Reserve University
  • Weixian Liao, Ph.D., August 2018, Case Western Reserve University
    • Initial employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering, Towson University
  • Changqing Luo, Ph.D., August 2018, Case Western Reserve University
    • Initial employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Virginia CommonWealth University
  • Kaijin Zhang, Ph.D., August 2018, Case Western Reserve University
    • Initial employment: Bloomberg L.P.
  • Josh Veltri, M.S., December 2017, Case Western Reserve University
    • Initial employment: The MITRE Corporation, Aberdeen, MD
  • Sheng Cai, Ph.D., August 2016, Mississippi State University
    • Initial employment: Sensor Engineer, Autoliv, Inc., Auburn Hills, Michigan
    • Current employment: Sr. Function Software Engineer, KSS Automotive Active Safety Systems (Suzhou) Co. Ltd
  • Sergio Salinas, Ph.D., August 2015, Mississippi State University
    • Initial employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Wichita State University
    • Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Wichita State University
  • Ming Li, Ph.D., August 2014, Mississippi State University
    • Initial employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno
    • Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington
  • Arun Thapa, Ph.D., August 2014, Mississippi State University
    • Initial employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tuskegee University
  • KV Sathya, M.S., August 2014, Mississippi State University
    • Initial employment: Field Applications Engineer (Senior Staff), Avnet Inc., Raleigh, NC

Teaching

—Imagination is more important than knowledge.—

  • DSCI 133: Introduction to Data Science and Engineering, Spring’17|Spring’18|Spring’19
  • ECSE 316/414: Wireless Communications, Fall’16|Fall’17|Fall’18|Spring’21|Spring’23|Spring’24
  • ECSE 354: Digital Communications, Spring’19|Spring’21|Spring’21|Spring’23|Spring’24
  • ECSE 351: Communications and Signal Analysis, Fall’15|Fall’19|Fall’20|Fall’20|Fall’22|Fall'23
  • ECE 3443: Signals and Systems, MSU, Fall’09|Fall’11
  • ECE 4813/6813: Communication Theory, MSU, Spring’10|Spring’11|Fall’13
  • ECE 4823/6823: Digital Communications, MSU, Fall’12|Spring’14
  • ECE 4833/6833: Data Communication Networks, MSU, Spring’11
  • ECE 8823: Wireless Networks, MSU, Spring’12|Fall’13|Fall’14
  • ECE 8990: Advanced Topics in Big Data, MSU, Spring’15
  • ECE 8990: Advanced Topics in Cloud Computing, MSU, Spring’13
  • ECE 8990: Advanced Topics in Cognitive Radio Networks, MSU, Spring’13|Spring’15
  • ECE 8990: Smart Grids, MSU, Spring’12 (Co-Instructor)
  • ECE 8990: Wireless Communications, MSU, Fall’10|Fall’12
  • Senior Design Projects, MSU

Honors and Awards

  • IEEE Fellow (2024) (through the IEEE Communications Society) ("For contributions to scaling laws and cross-layer optimization for wireless networks")
  • Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) Fellow (2024)
  • Best Journal Paper Award, the Big Data Technical Committee, IEEE Communications Society, 2020
  • Best Application Award, PAKDD, 2018
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE DASC, 2017
  • 2nd Place in IEEE Big Data Analytics Competition at IEEE BHI 2017, Sponsored by IEEE Big Data Initiative, February 2017
  • Best Paper Award, ChinaCom, 2014
  • Meritorious Service Certificate as a “Top Reviewer”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), April 2014
  • National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 2012
  • Chair, Wireless Communication Working Group, supported by the Bagley College of Engineering and the Office of Research and Economic Development (ORED) at MSU, 2011–2012
  • StatePride Faculty Award, Mississippi State University, 2011
  • StatePride Faculty Award, Mississippi State University, 2010

Professional Activities

Editorship

  • Editor, Computer Networks, February 2023 – Present
  • Editor, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, November 2021 – Present
  • Editor, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, July 2021 – Present
  • Editor, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, March 2020 – Present
  • Editor, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, November 2019 – Present
  • Editor, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, July 2016 – September 2020
  • Editor, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Cognitive Radio Series, June 2012 – December 2014
  • Editor, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (COMST), January 2012 – December 2016
  • Feature Editor, IEEE Wireless Communications, October 2011 – August 2020

Conference Organizing Committee

  • Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chair, The First Workshop on Security and Privacy on Blockchain, Los Angeles, CA, December 2019
  • General Chair, 15th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous’18), New York, NY, USA, November 2018
  • Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chair, Wireless Networks Symposium, IEEE ICNC 2018, Maui, Hawaii, March 5-8, 2018
  • Tutorial Co-Chair, ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM’17), Miami, USA, November 21-25, 2017
  • Leading Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chair, Social Networks and Big Data (SNBD) Symposium, IEEE ICCC 2017, Qingdao, China, October 22-24, 2017
  • General Chair, the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Smart Data (SmartData’17), Exeter, UK, June 21-23, 2017
  • Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chair, Ad-hoc, Mesh, Machine-to-Machine and Sensor Networks Track, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC’14), Vancouver, BC, Canada, September 2014
  • Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chair, Physical Layer Track, Wireless Communications Symposium (WCS’14), Washington, DC, April 2014
  • Publicity Chair, the 16th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM’13), Barcelona, Spain, November 2013
  • Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chair, Wireless Networking Symposium, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’13), Budapest, Hungary, June 2013
  • Poster Chair, the 10th IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON’13), New Orleans, LA, June 2013
  • Web Chair, the 31th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’12), Orlando, FL, March 2012

Technical Program Committee

  • AAAI’24, IJCAI (SPC)’24, INFOCOM’24, MOBIHOC’24
  • IJCAI’23 (SPC), INFOCOM’23, MOBIHOC’23
  • BHI’22, IJCAI’22, INFOCOM’22
  • AAAI’21, IJCAI’21 (SPC), INFOCOM’21
  • BigData’20, ICC’20, IJCAI’20 (SPC), INFOCOM’20, GLOBECOM’20
  • BHI’19, BigData’19, INFOCOM’19
  • BCB’18, BigData’18, ICC’18, ICCCN’18, INFOCOM’18, SECON’18
  • BigData’17, ICC’17, INFOCOM’17
  • Globecom’16, ICC’16 INFOCOM’16, WASA’16
  • ICC’15, ICCC’15, ICCCN’15, INFOCOM’15
  • ChinaCom’14, GlobalSIP‘14, ICC’14, ICCC’14, ICCCN’14, INFOCOM’14, MobiSPC’14, Q2SWinet’14, QShine’14
  • ICC’13, ICCCN’13, ICCVE’13, ICNC’13, INFOCOM’13, ITASC’13, MASS’13, Q2SWinet’13, SmartGridComm’13
  • ICC’12, ICCC’12, ICCCN’12, ICCVE’12, ICNC’12, INFOCOM’12, MASS’12
  • CCNC’11, GLOBECOM’11, ICC’11, ICCCN’11, INFOCOM’11, IPCCC’11, MASS’11, NAS’11
  • ICC’10, INFOCOM’10, MASS’10, NAS’10, QShine’10

Panelist

  • US National Science Foundation
  • National Fund for Scientific and Technological Research of Chile (FONDECYT)
  • Swiss National Science Foundation

Patents

  • Systems and Methods for An Adaptive Power Controlled MAC Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks (WO2009089241)
 
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