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Bio:

Dr. Ying Li received the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 2005 and 2008, respectively. She received the B.E. degree (with highest honors) and the M.E. degree (with highest honors) in Information and Communication Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.

Her recent research focuses on big data, applied machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), and their applications on connectivity, ads targeting and ranking, AI infrastructure, spatial computing, network planning, network optimization, etc. She has been with Facebook since July 2017. Prior to that, she worked with FutureWei Technologies, from Mar. 2015 to July 2017, where she worked on wireless data analytics and machine learning. She was with Samsung Research America, Dallas, TX, from Nov. 2013 to Mar. 2015, and was with Samsung Telecommunications America, Dallas, TX, from Oct. 2008 to Oct. 2013, where she conducted research on communication networks and smart energy networks. She was a visiting Ph.D. student in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, in summer 2007 and in Motorola Multimedia Research Labs, Schaumburg, IL, in fall 2007, respectively. She worked as a faculty member in the Department of Information and Communication Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University from 2000 to 2003 and as a visiting scholar in Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd., Japan, from 2000 to 2001. Her research areas include applied machine learning, big data, optimization, communication networks, next generation wireless communications, heterogeneous networks, cross-layer design, content distribution, multimedia communication, smart energy networks, energy monitoring and management, information theory, and signal processing.

Dr. Li is an inventor of 75 patents granted by USPTO as of Dec. 2021 (including 4G/5G standards/products patents). She is a recipient of Future Star Award from FutureWei Technologies in 2016, Distinguished Inventor Award 2013 from Samsung Research America at Dallas, and the Inventor of the Year 2012 and Distinguished Inventor Award 2010 from Samsung Telecommunications America. She is a recipient of Gordon Wu Fellowship from the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University in 2003-2007, where the Wu Fellowships are made to new graduate students who demonstrate the potential to be world leaders in their fields in the 21st century.

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