Na Li

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Na Li

Biography

Na Li is a Winokur Family Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University. She received her bachelor's degree in mathematics from Zhejiang University in 2007 and Ph.D. degree in Control and Dynamical systems from the California Institute of Technology in 2013. She was a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2013-2014.

She has held a variety of short-term visiting appointments including the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, MIT, Google Brain, and Mitsubishi Electric Research laboratories (MERL).

Her research lies in< the control, learning, and optimization of networked systems, including theory development, algorithm design, and applications to real-world cyber-physical societal system.

She has been an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Systems & Control Letters, IEEE Control Systems Letters, and served on the organizing committee for a few conferences. She is an IEEE fellow, IFAC distinguished lecturer, and recipient of several awards, including NSF career award, AFSOR Young Investigator Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, Donald P. Eckman Award, McDonald Mentoring Award, IFAC Distinguished Lecture, IFAC Manfred Thoma Medal, Ruberti Young Researcher Prize, along with other awards.

Position(s) & Affiliation(s)

Harvard University
United States