Dr. Kai Li is a senior research scientist and project leader with Real-Time and Embedded Computing Systems Research Centre (CISTER), which is one of national research units funded by The Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) in Portugal.

His research interests include vehicular communication and security, Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet of Things, resource allocation, human sensing systems, wireless sensor networks and UAV networks. He is also interested in machine learning and mobile programming (Android and Objective-C).

Openings I am looking for highly self-motivated PhD students. If you are interested in working with me, feel free to send me your CV. Please refer to http://www.cister.isep.ipp.pt/phd/ for graduate admission information.  Employment 07/2016 - Present, senior research scientist and project leader with Real-Time and Embedded Computing Systems Research Centre (CISTER), Portugal. Lukas focuses on Cyber-Physical Systems.  06/2016 - 08/2016, visiting research fellow with Engineering Systems and Design Pillar, SUTD, Singapore. 12/2014 - 06/2016, Postdoc research fellow with The SUTD-MIT International Design Centre, Singapore. Lukas did research on human sensing systems and energy harvesting wireless sensor networks in smart city. 09/2012 - 03/2013, visiting research assistant with ICT Centre, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Brisbane, Australia. Lukas did research on scheduling optimization in low-power wireless sensor networks. 06/2010 - 06/2011, full-time research assistant with Mobile Technologies Centre, Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Lukas worked on machine learning algorithm and mobile application programming. The android application can be found in Google play: [DrunkAlert] [AndroLib]

Grants 2020 - 2021, €57K, PI Project Title: CRUAV: Cooperative Trajectory Planning for Real-Time Surveillance in UAV-assisted Intelligent Transportation Systems Hosting Institution: CISTER Research Centre Sponsor: Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program (CMU Portugal), Carnegie Mellon University, United States, and FCT Portugal 2018 - 2021, €240K, PI Project Title: ARNET: Airborne Relaying Networks for Reliable and Secure Mobile Communications Hosting Institution: CISTER Research Centre Sponsor: Scientific Research and Technological Development (SR&TD), FCT Portugal

Past Projects Project Reference: Grant nr. 692529-2 Project Title: SafeCOP-Safe Cooperating Cyber-Physical Systems using Wireless Communication Hosting Institution: CISTER Research Centre Sponsor: FCT, ARTEMIS, European Union Project Reference: JU Grant nr. 621353 ARTEMIS/0004/2013 Project Title: DEWI-Dependable Embedded Wireless Infrastructure Hosting Institution: CISTER Research Centre Sponsor: FCT, European Union Project Title: Proactive Information Surveillance in Wireless Networks Hosting Institution: Singapore University of Technology and Design Sponsor: Seed Project under Temasek Laboratories Project Title: Green Heterogeneous Sensor Networks Based on Radio Broadcasting for Smart City Hosting Institution: Singapore University of Technology and Design Sponsor: Singapore – China Joint Research Programme Project Title: Liveable Places: A Building Environment Modelling Approach For Dynamic Place Making Hosting Institution: Singapore University of Technology and Design Sponsor: The Ministry of National Development Research Fund, Singapore Project Reference: DP110104344 Project Title: Flying Networks: Airborne Sensing for Environmental Monitoring and Disaster Response Hosting Institution: The University of New South Wales Sponsor: Discovery Projects Funding of the Australian Research Council Project Title: Batmon Project in CSIRO’s Sensor and Sensor Networks Transformation Capability Platform Hosting Institution: CSIRO Sponsor: CSIRO Project Reference: ITS/045/09 Project Title: An Extensive Distributed Measurement Platform for Analyzing Quality-of-Experience (QoE) of Multimedia Applications over Wireless Networks Hosting Institution: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Sponsor: The Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) of the Hong Kong SAR Government Project Title: Architectural Design of Mobile Measurement Platform Hosting Institution: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Sponsor: Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Project Reference: ITP/022/08LP Project Title: RFID Benchmarking Methodology, Report and Tool Support Hosting Institution: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Sponsor: The Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) of the Hong Kong SAR Government

Supervised/joint-supervised students 2019 - , AI in Industrial CPS, Mr. Jingjing Zheng (PhD candidate, University of Porto) 2018 - , Resource Allocation and Security in UAV Networks, Mr. Yousef Emami (PhD candidate, University of Porto) 2015 - 2016, MAC Protocol Design and Programming for Massive Wireless Sensor Network, Mr. Tanmay Chaturvedi (The LNMIIT, Jaipur), jointly supervised with Prof. Chau Yuen. 2015, Sensor Design and Programming for Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Network, Mr. Manjul Manivesh (IIT Roorkee), jointly supervised with Prof. Chau Yuen. 2014 - 2015, Passive Wi-Fi Design for People Flow Tracking, Mr. Wei Zhang (Peking University), jointly supervised with Prof. Chau Yuen. 2014 - 2015, Sensor Design and Embedded Programming for Smart City, Mr. Jana Sharma (University of Moratuwa), jointly supervised with Prof. Chau Yuen. 2013 - 2014, Evaluation of Medium Access Protocol for Aerial Sensor Networks, Mr. Ryan Tulus (UNSW), jointly supervised with Prof. Salil Kanhere.

Casual Tutoring UNSW COMP3331/9331 Computer Networks and Applications (2014s1, 2013s2, 2013s1, 2012s2, 2012s1, 2011s2) UNSW COMP4335/9335 Wireless Mesh and Sensor Networks (2013s2, 2012s2) UNSW COMP9334 Capacity Planning of Computer Systems and Networks (2014s1, 2013s1, 2012s1)

Awards 2020, CMU-Portugal Research Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University, United States, and FCT Portugal 2014, The Postgraduate Research Student Support, Graduate Research School, UNSW 2012, Student Participation Grants, IEEE LCN conference 2012, Top-Up scholarship for PhD student, CSIRO 2011, School Supplementary Payment, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW 2011, Research scholarship, Australian Research Council Discovery Grants 2009, Akademische Pruefstelle (APS) Certificate, German Academic Exchange Service 2008, China National Computer Rank Examination Grade 4, Authentification Certificate of Network Engineer

Academic Citizenship 2021, Associate Editor, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal 2020, IEEE Senior member 2020, Member of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2020, Member of IEEE Communications Society 2018, Associate Editor, IEEE Access Journal 2018, Demo Co-Chairs, The 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) TPC member of 2020, IEEE 5G World Forum (WF-5G)  2019, Posters and Demos Track, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom); International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN)  2019, IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN); IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP); IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS); International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous); The International Conference on Digital Image and Signal Processing (DISP)  2018, The 4th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP); IEEE Global Communications Conference: Mobile and Wireless Networks Symposium (Globecom); IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2018-Spring); IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS); ACM International Workshop on Complex Networked Systems for Smart Infrastructure (C-NetSys); International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP); IEEE 5G World Forum (WF-5G); International Workshop on Mobile Applications (MobiApps)  2017, IEEE Global Communications Conference: Mobile and Wireless Networks Symposium (Globecom); IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN); IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2017-Spring, VTC2017-Fall); International Workshop on Mobile Applications (MobiApps); International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S) 2016, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2016-Spring, VTC2016-Fall) 2015, IEEE ICC Workshop on Green Communications and Networks (WGCN); International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP); International Conference on the Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud); International Conference on e-Quality & e-Service Sciences (eQeSS); International Symposium on Web of Things and Big Data (WoTBD); International Workshop on Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (SIPR); International Workshop on the Design and Performance of Networks on Chip (DPNoC); International Conference on Engineering & Computational Innovative Sciences (ENCINS) 2014, International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN); International Workshop on Mobile Applications (MobiApps); International Symposium on Pattern Recognition and Image Processing (PRIP) 2013, International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems (IJCDS) Review papers for IEEE Communications Letters; IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine; IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine; IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON); ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN); IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC); IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ); IEEE Systems Journal; IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS); IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC); IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC); IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII); IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT); IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (TSP); IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC); IEEE Sensors Journal; IEEE Access Journal; IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (TAES); Computer Communications Journal (COMCOM); EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking; KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems; ACM Journal of Computing Surveys (CSUR); The Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (PMC); Ad Hoc Networks Journal; International Journal of Sensors; International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (IJDSN); International Journal of Communication Systems; International Journal of Wireless Networks ICCPS, WoWMoM, EWSN, WCNC, ICDCN, DCOSS, BIGCOM, RTSS, MSWiM, VTC, PIMRC, WiMob, IQ2S, IWWCN, TENCON, ICCCRI, APWCS, LCN, MASS, ICC, WCNC, International Conference on Sensor Systems and Software (S-CUBE), The International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM), International conference on selected topics in Mobile and Wireless Networking (MoWNet), IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON), GlobeCom - Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, CCNC - eHealth & Ambident Assisted Living, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS), IEEE International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT) conference.