Zhengnan Li
 

EDUCATION

Northeastern University (NEU), Boston, MA, USA
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering Sept. 2018 - Jun. 2024 (exp.)
GPA: 3.8 / 4.0
Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
M. Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering Sept. 2016 - Aug. 2018
GPA: 3.8 / 4.0
Shandong University of Technology (SDUT), Zibo, Shandong, China
B. Eng. in Communication Engineering Sept. 2012 - Jun. 2016
GPA: 87 / 100

PUBLICATIONS

Please refer to the PDF version.

PATENTS

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    U.S. Patent application 17/707587, “Low Latency Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access Transmission Scheme”, Sep. 2021 (pending, with Apple Inc.)

RESEARCH

CDSP Center, NEU, Advisor: Prof. Milica Stojanovic Sept. 2018 - Present

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    Spread spectrum OFDM transceiver design in underwater acoustic communications.

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    Broadband transmit and receive beamforming systems.

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    Underwater acoustic channel modeling.

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    Terahertz channel modeling and communications.

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    Realtime audio processing and acoustic communications network.

GENESYS Lab, NEU Sept. 2016 - Aug. 2018

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    Coexistence of LTE or 5G with WiFi in 5GHz band; system level modeling and simulations.

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    WiFi ad-hoc mode performance evaluation using ns-3.

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    mmWave Massive MIMO beamforming communication system simulator design based on 802.11ad.

EXPERIENCES

Graduate Research Assistant
Northeastern University Sept. 2019 - Present

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Northeastern University Sept. 2016 - Present

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    EECE2520 Fundamentals of Linear Systems (Undergraduate, 2016 Fall)

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    EECE4694 Numerical Methods (Undergraduate, 2018 Summer)

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    EECE5612 Statistical Inference (Graduate, 2021 - 2023 Spring)

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    EECE5666 Digital Signal Processing (Graduate, 2017 - 2018 Spring)

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    EECE7310 Modern Signal Processing (Graduate, 2018 Spring)

Wireless Architecture Intern
Apple Inc. Summer 2019 - 2021

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    Proposed WiFi-based transport protocols and drafted a patent.

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    Verified protocol interactions and performance through the state of the art network simulator.

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    Implemented various WiFi features, calibrated with standard and conducted statistical analysis.

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    Modeled the radio interaction of different wireless technologies.

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    Developed and deployed DevOps tools, including CI/CD systems and interoperability frameworks.

MathWorks Teaching Assistant
Northeastern University Sept. 2018 - Apr. 2019

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    University wide MATLAB/Simulink guidance.

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    Courses on introduction to MATLAB.

Communications Development Intern
The MathWorks Inc. May. 2017 - Dec. 2017

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    Implemented symbol synchronization algorithms in C/C++ for accelerating via MATLAB mex.

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    Accelerated software defined radio (SDR) receiver example structure to enable real-time processing.

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    Developed an SDR throughput and latency measuring utility on supported radios.

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    Developed a bit error rate test framework for specific system-level simulation/hardware-in-the-loop examples.

ACADEMIC SERVICES

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    Web Chair, WUWNet’22.

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    Reviewer

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      Computer Communications

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      EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing

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      IEEE Access

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      IEEE Communications Letters

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      IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering (Outstanding Reviewer, 2022)

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      IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications

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      IEEE Signal Processing Letters

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      IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

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      IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

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      IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine

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      The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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    Graduate Student Member, IEEE.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

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    Computer languages and tools: Python (numpy), C++ (boost, eigen, highway), Octave (MATLAB); ns-3, GNURadio, USRP (UHD); Linux (arch), Fish (bash), SVN (Git).

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    Theory: wireless communications, digital signal processing, statistical signal processing; statistics, machine learning and deep learning.

SCHOLARSHIP AND HONORS

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    Honored Graduated Student - Shandong University of Technology Jun. 2016

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    National Scholarship - Ministry of Education of P.R.China Nov. 2014