Stony Brook Faculty Directory

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). Before that, he was an assistant professor at SUNY-Binghamton from 2019 to 2023, and a postdoc with the College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst from 2017 to 2019, hosted by Prof. Don Towsley. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2016 under the supervision of Prof. Srinivas Shakkottai. He also worked very closely with Prof. Vijay Subramanian from University of Michigan. He received his B.E. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2012. Dr. Li is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2024) and the NSF CISE CRII Award (2021). His papers have received the ACM/IEEE SC’24 Best Student Paper Finalist, the ACM e-Energy'21 Best Paper Runner-Up Award and the IEEE MASCOTS'18 Best Paper Runner-Up Award. His research is supported by NSF, ARO and DOE.
Education
- B.E., Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Ph.D., Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University