Short Bio

Lusi Li joined the Department of Computer Science at Old Dominion University in July 2021. She received the Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Rhode Island, supervised by Prof. Haibo He, in May 2021. She received the B.S. degree and M.S. degree in Computer Science and Technology from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China, in 2014 and 2017, respectively. 

Research Interests

My research interest lies in Computer Vision and Machine Learning with a focus on developing scalable algorithms to learn robust representations from large-scale data and their applications in industrial processes, as well as Wireless Communications.

• Multi-view/Multi-modal Learning (Deep Learning, Graph Learning, Subspace Learning)

• Transfer Learning (Domain Adaptation, Domain Generalization)

• Few-Shot/Zero-Shot Learning (Meta-Learning, Prompt Tuning)

• 2D/3D Image Processing (3D Object Detection, Person Re-identification, Medical Image Recognition, and Segmentation)

• Imbalanced Learning (Information Entropy, Generative Adversarial Networks, Variational Autoencoder)

• Wireless Communications (Semantic Communication, Dynamic Spectrum Management)

• Industrial Applications (Fault Diagnosis, Reliability Assessment)

News

• [09/2025] We got one paper accepted by TNNLS. Congrats to Yiming.

• [08/2025] We got two papers accepted by MILCOM 2025. Congrats to Ziyu and Yao.

• [08/2025] We got one paper accepted by ACM MM 2025. Congrats to Ziyu.

• [02/2025] I accepted the invitation to be an Area Chair for ACM Multimedia 2025.

• [08/2024] I accepted the invitation to be an Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition.

• [08/2024] I accepted the invitation to be an Associate Editor for Information Fusion.

• [07/2024] I accepted the invitation to be an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics.

• [03/2024] I accepted the invitation to be an Area Chair for ACM Multimedia 2024.

Awards and Grants

• Toward Integrated Security and Privacy Solutions for Multi-Modal AI, COVACCI, $60,000, 01/2025 - 01/2026. Role: PI.

• Trustworthy AI in the Data Revolution for Adaptation and Resilience in Coastal Communities, ICAR, $31,000. Role: Co-PI.

• A Compound AI System for Transportation Resilience Management in Flood-Prone Coastal Areas, ICAR, $31,000. Role: Co-PI.

• Faculty Proposal Preparation Program (FP3) Award, ODU, 08/2024 - 05/2025. Role: Sole-PI.

• Cheng Fund for Innovative Research Award, COS, ODU, $1,5000,  05/2024-08/2025. Role: Sole-PI.

• CRII: CNS: Towards Robust and Efficient Dynamic Spectrum Sharing with Knowledge Transfer, NSF, $175,000, 10/2023 - 09/2026. Role: Sole-PI.

• TrustAI: enhancing human confidence and trust in AI models, CCI, $60,000, 12/2022 - 08/2025. Role: Co-PI.

• Summer Research Fellowship Program (SRFP) 2022 Award, ODU, 05/2022-08/2022. Role: Sole-PI.

• Provost's Initiative for Retention of Underrepresented Faculty (PI-RUF) Award, ODU, $10,000, Role: Sole-PI. 

• Gabron Family Graduate Fellowship Scholarship Award, URI, 03/2021. 

• Kenneth J. & Virginia E. Hylander Graduate Engineering Fellowship Scholarship Award, URI, 03/2021. 

• Outstanding Graduate Researcher Award, URI, 02/2021. 

Group Members

• Jian Li (Fall/2023 -)  (co-advised) 

• Yao Wang (Fall/2023 -)

• Yiming Du (Fall/2023 -)

• Ziyu Wang (Fall/2022 -)