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Li, Ang

Li, Ang

Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
2365 A.V. Williams Bldg.

Dr. Li joined the University of Maryland, College Park as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Aug. 2023. During the deferral time before joining, he was a research associate at Qualcomm AI Research.

Dr. Li received his Ph.D. in 2022 from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Duke University. Li has also earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Arkansas. He has an MS in Management of Innovation and Venture Capital from Peking University, and a BS in Computer Science from Henan University in China.

His research interests lie in the intersection of machine learning and edge computing, with a focus on building large-scale networked and trustworthy intelligent systems to solve practical problems in a collaborative, scalable, secure, and ubiquitous manner. Dr. Li has been recognized with a variety of awards, including the IEEE TCCPS Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award, ACM KDD Best Student Paper Award in 2020, and the 2022-2023 Duke ECE Department Outstanding Dissertation Award.

My research interests lie in the intersection of machine learning and edge computing, with a focus on building large-scale networked and trustworthy intelligent systems to solve practical problems in a collaborative, scalable, secure, and ubiquitous manner.

  • Federated Learning
  • Distributed Machine Learning
  • Machine Learning System
  • Edge Computing
  • AI for IoT
  • Trustworthy Machine Learning

A list of publications can be found on Google Scholar.

ECE Student Owen Mank Recognized as Philip Merrill Presidential Scholar

Award Recognizes Top Students and Their Mentors

The Clark School Celebrates Native and Indigenous Voices in Engineering

At Maryland Engineering, we celebrate the diversity of cultures and contributions among our community of innovators.

New Design Packs Two Qubits into One Superconducting Junction

Result of Collaboration Between Mohammad Hafezi and Alicia Kollár

 Dinesh Manocha Receives 2024 Jimmy Lin Award for Innovation and Invention

Recognized for his patent on multimodal emotion recognition.

UMD to Host International Graduate Engineering Course on Sustainability

The world goes to Maryland for a summer 2025 course on sustainable energy.

Brick by Brick: The Clark School Celebrates LGBTQ+ Engineers

At Maryland Engineering, we celebrate the diversity of experiences, stories, and contributions among our community of innovators.  

Three ECE Alums to be Honored by A. James Clark School of Engineering

Inducted into 2024 Class of Early Career Distinguished Alumni

$1.9M NSF FuSe2 award - Cheng Gong’s 7th NSF research grant in the past two years

An Interdisciplinary, Multi-institution Team to Advance Next-generation Microelectronics