Yanhua Li

PhD Candidate

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Minneapolis, MN, USA

Email: yanhua (at) cs (dot) umn (dot) edu


Publications Talks Awards Professional Activities

Research Interests

I am interested in analyzing, understanding, and making sense of big data generated from various complex networks in many contexts, including online social behavior modeling and analysis, large-scale complex network sampling, measurement, and mining, spectral graph theory, and high performance networking protocol design.

Intern Experience

  1. 06/2012 - 08/2012 Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, USA. I worked with Dr. Moritz Steiner, Dr. Limin Wang and Dr. T.V. Lakshman.
  2. 09/2011 - 01/2012 HUAWEI Innovation Center, Santa Clara, CA, USA. I worked with Dr. Haiyong Xie.
  3. 05/2011 - 08/2011 Theory group at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Beijing, China. I worked with Dr. Wei Chen and Dr. Yajun Wang during summer 2011.
      -- Received MSRA Internship Excellence Award.

Teaching

  • Teaching Assistant: Foundations of Advanced Networking (csci5221), Spring 2013.
    • -- TA Office Hours: Thursdays 11AM-12PM (Walter Library B32)

    Education

  • Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, 2009-Now.
  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, 2009.
  • M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, 2006.
  • B.E. in Electrical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, 2003.

  • Selected Publications [full list]

    Jounral Papers:

    1. [ToN] Yanhua Li, Zhi-Li Zhang,
      Random Walks and Green's Function on Digraphs: A Framework for Estimating Wireless Transmission Costs.[ PDF][Bibtex]
      IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol.21 (Num.1), pages 135-148, Feb 2013.

    2. [TVT] Yanhua Li, Abedelaziz Mohaisen, and Zhi-Li Zhang,
      Trading Optimality for Scalability in Large-scale Wireless Network Opportunistic Routing.[PDF will be ready soon][Bibtex]
      IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol.PP (Num.99), Dec 2012.

    3. [IM] Yanhua Li, Zhi-Li Zhang,
      Digraph Laplacian and the Degree of Asymmetry .[ PDF][Bibtex]
      Internet Mathematics, Vol.8 (Num.4), pages 381--401, Dec 2012.

    Conference Papers:

    1. [ICDCS'13] Yanhua Li, Haiyong Xie, Yonggang Wen, and Zhi-Li Zhang,
      Coordinating In-Network Caching in Content-Centric Networks: Model and Analysis. [PDF][Bibtex]
      The 33rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, (61/464=13.1%Acceptance Ratio), July 8-11, 2013, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

    2. [WSDM'13] Yanhua Li, Wei Chen, Yajun Wang, Zhi-Li Zhang,
      Influence Diffusion Dynamics and Influence Maximization in Social Networks with Friend and Foe Relationships.[ PDF][Full version][Bibtex]
      The 6th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, (73/387=18.9% Acceptance Ratio), February 4-8, 2013, Rome, Italy.
      (This work is selected for oral presentation in a WSDM spotlight session.)

    3. [IMC'11] Jia Zhou, Yanhua Li, Vijay Kumar Adhikari, Zhi-Li Zhang,
      Counting YouTube Videos via Random Prefix Sampling.[ PDF][Bibtex]
      The ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2011, (42/220=19.1%Acceptance Ratio), Berlin, Germany, November 2-4, 2011.

    4. [ICDCS'11] Yanhua Li, Zhi-Li Zhang, Daniel Boley.
      The Routing Continuum from Shortest Path to All-path: A Unifying Theory.[ PDF][Bibtex]
      The 31st Int'l Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, (87/565=15.4% Acceptance Ratio), Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 20-24, 2011.
      (This work was included in the graduate course CSCI 8363 Numerical Linear Algebra in Data Exploration and CSCI 5221 Foundations of Advanced Networking in Computer Science Department at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.)

    5. [INFOCOM'10] Yanhua Li, Zhi-Li Zhang.
      Random Walks on Digraphs: A Theoretical Framework for Estimating Transmission Costs in Wireless Routing. [ PDF][Bibtex]
      The 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. (276/1575=17.5% Acceptance Ratio), San Diego, CA, U.S.A. March 15-19, 2010.

    Talks

    1. [Invited Talk at CAS] Characterizing Versatile Link Patterns in Complex Networks, at Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, Jan 21st, 2013.

    2. [Invited Talk at CUHK] Characterizing Versatile Link Patterns in Complex Networks, at Computer Science Department at Chinese University of HongKong (CUHK), HongKong, Jan 14th, 2013.

    3. [Invited Talk at Tsinghua] Random Walks on Versatile Complex Networks, at Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS), Tsinghua University, Beijing, Jan 10th, 2013.

    4. [Conference Talk] Mutual or Unrequited Love: Identifying Stable Clusters in Social Networks with Uni- and Bi-directional Links. The 9th Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph (LNCS WAW 2012). Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, June 22-23, 2012.

    5. [Invited Talk at CUHK] Digraph Laplacian and Degree of Asymmetry. in Computer Science Department at Chinese University of HongKong (CUHK), HongKong, August 25th, 2011.

    6. [Best Presentation Award] Digraph Laplacian and Degree of Asymmetry. Workshop on Computational Aspects of Social and Information Networks (CASIN 2011), Beijing, July 22nd, 2011

    7. [Conference Talk] Random Walks on Digraphs, the Generalized Digraph Laplacian and the Degree of Asymmetry. The 7th Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph (LNCS WAW 2010). Stanford University, CA, U.S.A. December 13-16, 2010.

    8. [Conference Talk] Random Walks on Digraphs: A Theoretical Framework for Estimating Transmission Costs in Wireless Routing. The 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2010), San Diego, CA, U.S.A. March 15-19, 2010.


    Selected Awards and Honors

    1. IEEE ICNP 2012 Travel Grant, 2012;

    2. LNCS WAW 2012 Travel Grant, 2012

    3. USENIX NSDI 2012 Travel Grant, 2012

    4. NetSciCom 2012 (Co-located with infocom 2012) Travel Grant, 2012

    5. Received MSRA Internship Excellence Award, Summer 2011

    6. Best Student Presentation Award in CASIN 2011, Beijing, July 22, 2011;

    7. MASS 2009 Travel Grant, NSF, 2009

    Professional Activities

    1. Student member of IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communication Society;

    2. Committee Member, IEEE Sixth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2011, 2012); Shadow TPC Member, ACM CoNEXT 2011;

    3. External Reviewer for IEEE ICDCS (2010-2012), IEEE INFOCOM (2010-2013), ACM IMC (2012-2013), PAM 2013;

    4. Reviewer for IEEE INSS 2010, IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN), IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), international journals, such as JMCS, JCST, JECI, COMNET, Journal of Cluster Computing, Computer Networks, European Transactions on Telecommunications, Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM) and Journal of Queuing Systems, Elsevier Computer Communications, JMLR;

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