Li Erran Li

AWS AI, Amazon

IEEE Fellow and ACM Fellow

Research | Teaching | Publications | Patents | Professional Activities

• Computer Vision, Machine Learning Systems and Algorithms
• Graph Parallel Processing
• Networking and Communication Systems
• Mobile Computing

• Machine Learning Systems and Algorithms (Michelangelo[Blog, Paper], Robot Driver and Voice Assistant)
• Graph Parallel Processing (GraphFrames and GraphTau)
• Machine Learning and Big Data for Cellular Networks (LTE Radio Analytics and CellIQ and CellScope)
• CellSDN: Software-Defined Cellular Networks (Overview, PRAN, SoftRAN, RadioVisor, SoftCell, SoftMoW)
• Massive MIMO Systems: Scaling cellular Networks using a Large Number of Antennas
• mobile Cloud Computing: Cloud Computing for Mobile Applications

• COMS W4121: Computer Systems for Data Science, Spring 2015, Columbia University
• COMS E6998: Cellular networks and mobile computing (Prior Semesters: Spring 2012, Fall 2012, and Spring 2013 ), Spring 2014, Columbia University
• COMS E6998: Software Defined Networking (Prior Semesters: Fall 2013 ), Fall 2014, Columbia University

• Tutorial: 3D Deep Learning and Applications in Autonomous Driving, Nov 2, ICCV 2019
• Machine learning for autonomous driving: Recent advances and future challenges, Re-Work Deep Learning Summit, London, Sept 17, 2019
• Machine learning for autonomous driving: Recent advances and future challenges, Oreilly Artificial Intelligence Conference, San Jose, Sept 11, 2019
• Invited Talk: 3D Objection Detection: Recent Advances and Future Directions, Tokyo Deep Learning Workshop, RIKEN-AIP, Tokyo, March, 2018
• Tutorial: Machine Learning for Autonomous Vehicles, Oreilly Artificial Intelligence Conference, Beijing, April 2018
• Keynote: Machine Learning for Autonomous Vehicles: Recent Advances and Future Challenges, Oreilly Artificial Intelligence Conference, Beijing, April 2018
• Tutorial: Machine Learning for Autonomous Vehicles, ICML, August 2017 (co-taught with Jeff Schneider)
• Tutorial: Deep Reinforcement Learning: Foundations, Recent Advances and Frontiers, Deep Learning Summer School, Bilbao, Spain, July 2017
• Invited Talk: Deep Reinforcement Learning: Recent Advances and Frontiers, REWORK Deep Learning Summit, Boston, May 2017
• Invited Talk: Deep Reinforcement Learning: Recent Advances and Frontiers, Oreilly Artificial Intelligence Conference, September, San Francisco, September 2017
• Scaling Machine Learning as a Service, PAPIs, October 2016, Boston

• IEEE Fellow 2013, ACM Distinguished Scientist 2014 and ACM Fellow 2017
• Area Chair, NeurIPS December 2024
• Area Chair, CVPR June 2024
• Technical Program Committee, Machine learning and Systems, June 2023
• Co-organizer, CVPR Workshop on Autonomous Driving, June 2023
• Co-organizer, CVPR Workshop on 3D Vision and Robotics, June 2023
• Co-organizer, ICML Workshop on Safe Learning for Autonomous Driving (SL4AD), July 2022
• Co-organizer, CVPR Workshop on Autonomous Driving, June 2022
• Co-organizer, ICML Workshop on Human in the Loop Learning, July 2021
• Co-organizer, CVPR Workshop on 3D Vision and Robotics, June 2021
• Co-organizer, Co-organizer, NeurIPS 2019 Workshop on Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving, December 14, 2019, Vancover, Canada
• Co-organizer, ICCV 2019 Workshop on Autonomous Driving - Beyond Single-Frame Perception, Oct 28, 2019, Seoul, Korea
• Co-organizer, CVPR 2019 Workshop on Autonomous Driving - Beyond Single-Frame Perception, June 16, 2019, Long Beach, CA
• Co-organizer, ICML Workshop on AI for Autonomous Driving, June 15, 2019, Long Beach, CA
• Co-organizer, NIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MLITS), Dec 9, 2018, Montreal, Canada
• Co-organizer, Federated AI for Robotics Workshop (FAIR) at ICML, July 15, 2018, Stockholm, Sweden
• Co-organizer, NIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MLITS), Dec 9, 2017, Long Beach, CA
• Co-organizer, NIPS Workshop on Machine Learning Systems, Dec 8, 2017, Long Beach, CA
• Co-organizer, ICML Workshop on Machine Learning for Autonomous Vehicles (MLAV), August 8, 2017, Sydney, Australia
• Co-organizer, NIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MLITS), Dec 9, 2016, Barcelona, Spain
• Co-organizer, NIPS Workshop on Machine Learning Systems, Dec 10, 2016, Barcelona, Spain
• Co-organizer, Open Networking User Group Research Track, March 13 and 14, 2015
• Co-organizer, DIMACS Workshop on Systems and Analytics of Big Data, March 17 and 18, 2014
• TPC co-chair, NDSS Workshop on Security of Emerging Networking Technologies (SENT) February 23, 2014
• General Chair, ACM SIGCOMM Workshop of Software Radio Implementation Forum (SRIF), August 18, 2014
• Steering Committee, ACM SIGCOMM Workshop of Software Radio Implementation Forum (SRIF), August 12, 2013
• TPC co-chair, ACM MobiSys Workshop On Cellular Networks: Operations, Challenges, and Future Design (CellNet), June 25, 2013
• Co-organizer, DIMACS Workshop on Software Defined Networking, Dec 3 and 4, 2012
• TPC co-chair, ACM SIGCOMM Workshop On Cellular Networks: Operations, Challenges, and Future Design (CellNet), August 2012
• TPC Co-chair, IFIP Networking, May 2012
• Vice chair, First Workshop of Software Radio Implementation Forum (SRIF), Jan 2012
• Co-organizer, DIMACS Workshop on Systems and Networking Advances in Cloud Computing, Dec 8 and 9, 2011
• TPC Co-chair, The 1st International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing & Services: Social Networks and Beyond (MCS), June 2010
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transaction on Networking (ToN), 2011-2015
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2011-2015
• Associate Editor, IEEE Journal on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2009-2012
• Associate Editor, Wireless Network (WINET) Journal, 2006-2014
• Guest Editor, JSAC special Issue on Non-Cooperative Issues in Networking, 2007