Ming "Fred" Li
Ming "Fred" Li is a university distinguished scholar and professor in the School of Electrical, Computing, and Software Engineering at the University of Arizona and is an affiliated faculty with the Computer Science Department. He was an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Utah State University from 2011 to 2015. He received his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2011. His main research interests are wireless and cybersecurity, with an emphases on cross-layer optimization and machine learning in wireless networks, wireless physical layer security, privacy-enhancing technologies and cyber-physical system security. He received the NSF Early Faculty Development (CAREER) Award in 2014 and the ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award in 2016. He is a fellow of IEEE (Class of 2024) and a member of ACM.
Degrees
- PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2011
- MS Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, 2008
Teaching Interests
Computer and network security, cryptography and data security, wireless security and cybersecurity, computer networks, wireless networks, and data structure and algorithms
Research Interests
Information security and privacy, wireless networking, wireless security and cybersecurity, and security in cyber-physical systems