He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University. Before joining University of Tennessee, Dr. Li worked as a Senior engineer at Qualcomm. Dr. Li is the recipient of the Best Paper Awards of IEEE ICC, 2011 and IEEE SmartGridComm 2012, and the Best Demo Award of IEEE Globecom, 2010. His research focuses on statistical signal processing, wireless communications, networking, smart grid and game theory. His h-index as ranked by Scopus is 12 and he’s published 195 journal articles. Affiliations and Expertise