NAME
zli β ζεΎε Zhengnan Li.
SYNOPSIS
zli [OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION
Zhengnan Li is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA. He received the B.S. degree in Communication Engineering from Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, China, in 2016, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA, in 2018 and 2025, respectively. His research interests include statistical signal processing and digital communications, as well as their applications to underwater acoustic systems. He authored a paper that won the Best Paper Award at the 16th International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNet'22). He is currently an editorial board member of Scientific Reports and Scientific Reviews, an editor of IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, and a lead guest editor for IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications.
NEWS
- Aug. 2026: Mr. Yuxuan Ni joined our lab as a Ph.D. student! Welcome!
- Aug. 2026: Mr. Gang Qin joined our lab as a Ph.D. student! Welcome!
- Jul. 2026: I am appointed as an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reviews.
- Jul. 2026: Xinyu's first article, Joint Signal Processing and Coding for Underwater Acoustic Communications Using ORBGRAND, has been published in Scientific Reports. Congratulations!
- Jul. 2026: I am serving as a Lead Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications Special Issue on "Next-Generation Underwater Acoustic Communication Systems".
- Jun. 2026: I will be hosting a tutorial at the OCEANS 2026 Conference in Monterey, CA, on "A Hands-On Tutorial on the Underwater Acoustic Channel Library".
- Jun. 2026: I am serving as a publicity co-chair for WUWNet'26 in Hong Kong.
- Jun. 2026: Our project, Differentiable Acoustic Propagation for Underwater ISAC, is funded by NVIDIA Academic Grant Program.
- Mar. 2026: Our project, Digital Twin Driven Edge-AI Framework for Predictive RFID, is funded by NVIDIA Academic Grant Program.
- Jan. 2026: I presented at The University of Alabama at Huntsville.
- Jan. 2026: Mr. Zachary West joined our lab as an undergraduate researcher.
- Jan. 2026: Mr. Xinyu Li joined our lab as a Ph.D. student! Welcome!
- Nov. 2025: I am appointed as an Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.
- Nov. 2025: I am appointed as an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports.
- Oct. 2025: I presented an abstract titled "Revisiting HIFT: OFDM Communication Across a Nine Million Meter Acoustic Channel" at the 2025 IEEE Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing Workshop.
- Oct. 2025: I hosted a guest lecture by Dr. Paul van Walree: A journey from underwater acoustics to underwater communications.
- Aug. 2025: I joined The University of Alabama Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
OPTIONS
-a, --advisor
-c, --contact
Email: hi (at) ofdm (dot) link / zhengnan.li (at) ua (dot) edu. Use PGP if necessary. See PGP_KEY in ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLES.
-g, --group
Group: Ph.D. students: Xinyu Li, Gang Qin, and Yuxuan Ni.
-h, --hobby
Photography, all things open source, video games, synth, and plants! My Pokemon Go friend code is 0890 9635 8425.
-t, --teaching
ECE 370 Signals and Systems. See lecture notes source code on GitHub. Download the generated PDF here.
-w, --work
Underwater acoustic communications and networking. And possibly some fun projects in signal processing.
-v, --verbose
Hmm. Really?? You might not want that option.
PROJECTS AND PUBLICATIONS
See projects and publications.
SUPPORTED EXTENSIONS
.m .py .cpp .jl .sh
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
LANG
zh_CN.GB2312 en_US.utf-8
LOCALE
Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
PGP_KEY
CONFIG
hyprland dunst waybar rofi fish starship zellij helix ghostty mpv newsboat neomutt
TOOLS
numpy boost eigen highway ns-3 GNURadio USRP
INSTALLATION
Proprietary. Not for sale. Free, though: this page is also a POSIX shell script
at /zli and a roff manual at /zli.1, both generated from it on
every build, so zli -c in a terminal says what the page says.
curl -O https://zhengnanli.gitlab.io/zli && chmod +x zli && ./zli
curl -O https://zhengnanli.gitlab.io/zli.1 && man ./zli.1
SEE ALSO
GitHub, GitLab, Google Scholar, and Blog.
KNOWN BUGS
Probably. See :help todo for a list of known problems.
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