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Yuan Li

Clinical Assistant Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Email: Yuan.Li2@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, University of North Texas, 2021
    Major: Computer Science and Engineering
    Dissertation: Integrating Multiple Deep Learning Models to Classify Disaster Scene Videos
  • MS, University of North Texas, 2015
    Major: Computer Science
  • BE, Tianjin Polytechnic University, 2010
    Major: Pharmaceutical Engineering

Professional Positions

    Professional

  • Lecturer, Georgia State University. Georgia State University. (2021 - 2021).

Licensures and Certifications

  • Certificate of Excellence in Teaching Online, UNT. (2025 - Present).
  • Adult Mental Health First Aid Certification, Texas of Women University. (2021 - 2024).

Development Activities

  • Other (A community of practice for the application of ethical and responsible use of Generative Al to support effective teaching and learning.), Generative Al Institute for Teaching, University of North Texas. Denton,TX,United States of America. (2025 - 2025).
  • Other (A focused learning experience to create open, accessible, inclusive course content), Open Course Authoring Institute, University of North Texas. Denton,TX,United States of America. (January 2025 - March 2025).
  • Other (A community of practice for the application of inclusive, evidence-based teaching practices), Certificate of Excellence in Teaching Online, University of North Texas. Denton,TX,United States of America. (August 2024 - December 2024).
  • Other (ABCA Training), ABCA Training: Autism Spectrum Differences, 2e Twice Exceptional and Dyslexia, UNT. United States of America. (October 14, 2022 - October 14, 2022).
  • Other (ABCA Training), ABCA Training: The promise and practice of inclusive classrooms, UNT. United States of America. (February 14, 2022 - February 14, 2022).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • CSCE 1045 - Computer Programming II, 4 courses.
  • CSCE 2100 - Foundations of Computing, 88 courses.
  • CSCE 3110 - Data Structures and Algorithms, 1 course.
  • CSCE 4110 - Algorithms, 2 courses.
  • CSCE 4999 - Senior Thesis, 1 course.
  • CSCE 5150 - Analysis of Computer Algorithms, 12 courses.
  • CSCE 5200 - Information Retrieval and Web Search, 3 courses.
  • CSCE 5222 - Feature Engineering, 3 courses.
  • CSCE 5640 - Operating System Design, 7 courses.

Teaching at Other Institutions

  • Georgia State University, CSC 4520 & 6520: 002 & 006 Design & Analysis: Algorithms, Fall 2021.
  • Georgia State University, CSC 4999 Directed Readings, Fall 2021.
  • Georgia State University, CSC 4320 & 6320: 002 Operation Systems, Fall 2021.
  • Texas Woman’s University, Introduction to Algorithms, Spring 2020.

Directed Student Learning

  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2025).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2024).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2024).
  • Other (CSCE 4999 Senior Thesis), "Evaluating Real-Time Translation Method for Social Media Live Stream," Computer Science and Engineering. (August 2024 - December 2024).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2022 - 2024).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (2022 - 2024).

Awards and Honors

  • Faculty First Flight (FFF), UNT. (February 13, 2023).
  • Thank-a-Teacher Program Recognition, UNT. (December 15, 2023).
  • Thank-a-Teacher Program Recognition, UNT. (July 28, 2023).
  • MSCS Consortium: Capacity Funding Grant, Northeastern University. (May 20, 2022).
  • Faculty Diversity Award, UNT. (May 18, 2023).
  • Thank-a-Teacher Program Recognition, UNT. (May 12, 2023).
  • Google Cloud Research Credits Award, Google. (March 31, 2022).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Conference Proceeding

  • Jiang, B., Cheng, X., Li, Y., Fu, S., Yang, Q., Liu, M., Olvera, A. (2023). Output-Directed Dynamic Quantization for DNN Acceleration. 645-654. International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP).
  • Wang, H., Li, Y., Buckles, B. (2021). A Variety of Deep Learning Models to Classify Disaster Scene Videos. Proceedings of the International Conference on Science, Innovation and Management (ICSIM).
  • Li, Y., Wang, H., Buckles, B. (2020). Integrating Multiple Deep Learning Models to Classify Disaster Scene Videos. IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC).
  • Tang, S., Hochstetler, J., Li, Y., Fu, S. (2019). Low-latency High-level Data Sharing for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Internet (ICII). https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9065176
  • Li, Y., Wang, H., Buckles, B. (2019). Traffic Congestion Assessment Based on Street Level Data for On-Edge Deployment. Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3318216.3363368

    • Journal Article

  • Alhumud, W., Alenezi, A., Bryce, R.C., Li, Y., Alshammari, N. (2023). Bug Battles: A Competition to Catch Bugs in Different Programming Languages. Other. 38 (7) 36-45.

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Contract

  • Li, Li, Y., "North Texas Coding Academy," sponsored by Sponsored by Texas Workforce Commission, State, $5166 Funded. (2021 - 2022).

    • Grant - Teaching

  • Bryant, B.R., Keathly, D.M., Li, Y., Ludi, S.A., "Capacity Building for the M. S. Pathways to Computing at UNT (Unrestricted Gift)," sponsored by Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Private, $20000 Funded. (2022).

Service

University Service

  • Committee Chair, Graduate Student Assessment. (August 2024 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Research Ad-hoc committee. (2024 - Present).
  • Committee Member, CSE Intro Sequence Committee. (2023 - Present).
  • Program Coordinator, Course Coordinator. (2022 - Present).
  • Program Coordinator, Course Coordinator. (2022 - Present).
  • Attendee, Meeting, Monthly Faculty Meeting. (January 2022 - Present).
  • Attendee, Meeting, NTT Faculty. (2022 - Present).
  • Member, Graduate Student Assessment. (July 2023 - July 2024).
  • Committee Member, Diversity, Inclusion, Retention (DI). (2022 - July 31, 2023).
  • Committee Member, Teaching Faculty Hiring. (2022 - July 31, 2023).
  • Other (Mentor), Hack UNT. (April 2022 - April 2022).

Professional Service

  • Reviewer, Journal Article, MDPI. (December 2024 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, 43rd IEEE -- International Performance Computing and Communications Conference. Orlando, Florida. (July 2024 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, The National Center for Women & Information Technology(NCWIT). (June 2024 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, 44th IEEE -- International Performance Computing and Communications Conference. Austin, Texas. (2025 - 2025).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, COMPSAC 2025: IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications. (2025 - 2025).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, Social Media Mining for Health/Health Real-World Data (#SMM4H-HeaRD) 2025 Workshop and Shared Tasks. Copenhagen, (2025 - 2025).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP2025). (December 2024 - January 10, 2025).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, COMPSAC 2024: IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications. Osaka, N/A. (March 2024 - 2024).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP2024). (November 2023 - January 2024).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, The 16th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2023). Taormina (Messina), (October 2023 - October 2023).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, 42nd IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference(IPCCC'23). Anaheim, California. (July 2023 - July 2023).
  • Committee Member, Grace Hopper Celebration(GHC 23). (May 2023 - May 2023).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP2023). (November 2022 - January 2023).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, IEEE Cloud Summit. (2022 - 2022).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo. (2022 - 2022).