Jian Li
Jian Li
Assistant Professor, AMS

Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics
Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-2500

Website (URL)
https://sites.google.com/stonybrook.edu/jianli
Email
jian.li.3 [at] stonybrook.edu
Interests
Reinforcement Learning, Online Learning (Multi-Armed Bandits), Federated Learning, Large-scale Networked and Trustworthy Intelligent Systems.
Biography

Jian Li is an Assistant Professor of Data Science with the Departments of Applied Mathematics and Statistics & Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Stony Brook University, State University of New York (SUNY). Previously, he was an assistant professor at SUNY-Binghamton, and a postdoctoral researcher with the College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2016 and his B.E. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2012. Dr. Li is a 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 IEEE MASCOTS'18 Best Paper Runner-Up Award. 

Research

  • Theory: Reinforcement Learning, Multi-Armed Bandits, Federated Learning, Stochastic Optimization and Control, RL with Human Feedback (RLHF) and Alignment for Large Language Models (LLMs)

  • Systems and Security: Large-Scale Networked and Trustworthy Intelligent Systems including LLMs, wireless networks, edge and cloud computing, and serverless computing.