Education

  • Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 07/2008
  • MA/MS Control Theory and Control Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 03/2003
  • BA/BS Automation, Tsinghua University, China, 07/2000

Professional Experience

  • Summer Intern, ABB Corporate Research Center, Raleigh, NC, 5/2007 - 8/2007

Awards & Honors

  • Keynote Speaker, IEEE ITS Society 1st Summer School, Qingdao, China., 7/2015
  • Publication Chair, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Qingdao, China., 10/2014
  • Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)., 10/2013
  • Co-Chair, Technical Committee on Vehicle Safety Technologies and Applications, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (IEEE ITSS)., 9/2013
  • Program Chair, IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety (ICVES), Beijing, China., 7/2013
  • Prestigious External Award Recognition (PEAR), IUPUI., 3/2013
  • Selected Best Paper, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Anchorage, Alaska, USA., 10/2012
  • Outstanding Editorial Service Award for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems., 9/2012
  • Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award, Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI., 3/2012
  • Selected Remarkable Paper, ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, Seoul, Korea., 2/2011

Selected Publications

  • J. Yin, D. Chen, and L. Li, "Intelligent train operation algorithms for subway by expert system and reinforcement learning," IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS), vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 2561-2571, December 2014., 12/2014
  • S. Tang, Z. Li, D. Chen, Z. Chen, W. Liu, X. Liu, L. Li, and X. Shi, "Theme classification and analysis of core articles published in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems during 2010-2013," IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS), vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 2710-2719, December 2014., 12/2014
  • R. Tian, L. Li, V. Rajput, G. Witt, V. Duffy, and Y. Chen, "Study on the display positions for the haptic rotary device-based integrated in-vehicle infotainment interface," IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS), vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 1234-1245, June 2014., 6/2014
  • Y. Chen and L. Li, Advances in Intelligent Vehicles, ISBN-10: 0123971993, ISBN-13: 978-0123971999, Academic Press, December 2013., 12/2013
  • R. Tian, L. Li, M. Chen, Y. Chen, and G. Witt, "Studying the effects of driver distraction and traffic density on the probability of crash and near-crash events in naturalistic driving environment," IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS), vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 1547-1555, September 2013., 9/2013
  • S. Chien, L. Li, and Y. Chen, "A novel evaluation methodology for combined performance of warning and braking in crash imminent braking systems," IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (ITS Magazine), vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 62-72, Winter 2013., 9/2013
  • L. Li and C. N. Hadjicostis, "Minimum initial marking estimation in labeled Petri nets," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (T-AC), vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 198-203, January 2013., 1/2013
  • S. Chien, T. Moury, G. Widmann, L. Li, A. Maina Ari, A. Meadows, H. Banvait, and Y. Chen, "A new scoring mechanism for vehicle crash imminent braking systems," IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (ITS Magazine), vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 17-29, winter 2012. , 9/2012
  • Y. Qu, L. Li, Y. Chen, and Y. Dai, "An optimal design approach for fault-tolerant Petri net controllers using arc weights minimization," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A (T-SMCA), vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 1301-1308, September 2012., 9/2012
  • L. Li and C. N. Hadjicostis, "Least-cost transition firing sequence estimation in labeled Petri nets with unobservable transitions," IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 394-403, April 2011. , 4/2011
  • E. Athanasopoulou, L. Li, and C. N. Hadjicostis, "Maximum likelihood failure diagnosis in finite state machines under unreliable observations," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (T-AC), vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 579-593, March 2010. , 3/2010
  • L. Li, C. N. Hadjicostis, and R. S. Sreenivas, "Designs of bisimilar Petri net controllers with fault tolerance capabilities," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A (T-SMCA), vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 207-217, January 2008. , 1/2008

Expertise

Modeling, analysis, and control of complex systems; intelligent transportation systems and intelligent vehicles; fault-tolerant systems; discrete-event systems; human factors.

Interests

Transportation Systems; Intelligent Vehicles; Power Systems; Biological Systems; and Networked Systems.