.\" zli(1), generated from the page it is a copy of: see src/index.md and .\" src/_data/manpage.js in the site's repository. Edit the page, not this file. .\" .\" Read it with: man ./zli.1 .TH ZLI 1 2026-08-04 "zli 1.0 (69ee18cd)" "User Commands" .SH "NAME" .na zli \- ζŽεΎε— Zhengnan Li. .SH "SYNOPSIS" .na \fBzli\fR [OPTIONS] .SH "DESCRIPTION" .na \fBZhengnan Li\fR 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 \fIScientific Reports\fR and \fIScientific Reviews\fR, an editor of \fIIEEE Wireless Communications Letters\fR, and a lead guest editor for \fIIEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications\fR. .PP .na cv.pdf \%<\fIhttps://zhengnanli.gitlab.io/assets/cv.pdf\fR> .SH "NEWS" .na .IP \(bu 3 .na Aug. 2026: Mr. Yuxuan Ni joined our lab as a Ph.D. student! \fBWelcome!\fR .IP \(bu 3 .na Aug. 2026: Mr. Gang Qin joined our lab as a Ph.D. student! \fBWelcome!\fR .IP \(bu 3 .na Jul. 2026: I am appointed as an Editorial Board Member for \fIScientific Reviews\fR \%<\fIhttps://www.nature.com/scirev/editors\fR>. .IP \(bu 3 .na Jul. 2026: Xinyu's first article, \fIJoint Signal Processing and Coding for Underwater Acoustic Communications Using ORBGRAND\fR, has been published in \fBScientific Reports\fR. Congratulations! .IP \(bu 3 .na Jul. 2026: I am serving as a Lead Guest Editor for \fIIEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications\fR Special Issue on "Next\-Generation Underwater Acoustic Communication Systems" \%<\fIhttps://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee\-jsac/cfp/next\-generation\-underwater\-acoustic\-communication\-systems\fR>. .IP \(bu 3 .na 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" \%<\fIhttps://uwa\-channels.github.io/oceans26\-tutorial/\fR>. .IP \(bu 3 .na Jun. 2026: I am serving as a publicity co\-chair for WUWNet'26 \%<\fIhttps://wuwnet.acm.org/2026/Committee.html\fR> in Hong Kong. .IP \(bu 3 .na Jun. 2026: Our project, \fIDifferentiable Acoustic Propagation for Underwater ISAC\fR, is funded by \fBNVIDIA Academic Grant Program\fR. .IP \(bu 3 .na Mar. 2026: Our project, \fIDigital Twin Driven Edge\-AI Framework for Predictive RFID\fR, is funded by \fBNVIDIA Academic Grant Program\fR. .IP \(bu 3 .na Jan. 2026: I presented at The University of Alabama at Huntsville. .IP \(bu 3 .na Jan. 2026: Mr. Zachary West joined our lab as an undergraduate researcher. .IP \(bu 3 .na Jan. 2026: Mr. Xinyu Li joined our lab as a Ph.D. student! \fBWelcome!\fR .IP \(bu 3 .na Nov. 2025: I am appointed as an Editor for \fIIEEE Wireless Communications Letters\fR \%<\fIhttps://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee\-wcl/ieee\-wireless\-communications\-letters\-editorial\-board\fR>. .IP \(bu 3 .na Nov. 2025: I am appointed as an Editorial Board Member for \fIScientific Reports\fR \%<\fIhttps://www.nature.com/srep/about/editors\fR>. .IP \(bu 3 .na 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 \%<\fIhttps://uasp.org/abstracts/\fR>. .IP \(bu 3 .na Oct. 2025: I hosted a guest lecture by Dr. Paul van Walree: \fIA journey from underwater acoustics to underwater communications\fR \%<\fIhttps://eng.ua.edu/seminars/dr\-paul\-van\-walree/\fR>. .IP \(bu 3 .na Aug. 2025: I joined The University of Alabama Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. .SH "OPTIONS" .na .TP \fB\-a, \-\-advisor\fR .na Prof. Milica Stojanovic \%<\fIhttps://millitsa.coe.neu.edu/\fR>. .TP \fB\-c, \-\-contact\fR .na Email: hi (at) ofdm (dot) link / zhengnan.li (at) ua (dot) edu. Use PGP if necessary. See \fBPGP_KEY\fR in \fBENVIRONMENT_VARIABLES\fR. .TP \fB\-g, \-\-group\fR .na Group: Ph.D. students: Xinyu Li, Gang Qin, and Yuxuan Ni. .TP \fB\-h, \-\-hobby\fR .na Photography \%<\fIhttps://500px.com/p/zhengnanli?view=photos\fR>, all things open source, video games \%<\fIhttps://steamcommunity.com/id/blacksheep_rocks\fR>, synth \%<\fIhttps://teenage.engineering/products/op\-xy\fR>, and plants! My \fBPokemon Go\fR friend code is \fB0890 9635 8425\fR. .TP \fB\-t, \-\-teaching\fR .na ECE 370 Signals and Systems. See lecture notes source code on GitHub \%<\fIhttps://github.com/zhengnanli/ss\-notes\fR>. Download the generated PDF here \%<\fIhttps://github.com/zhengnanli/ss\-notes/releases/latest/download/lec.pdf\fR>. .TP \fB\-w, \-\-work\fR .na Underwater acoustic communications and networking. And possibly some fun projects in signal processing. .TP \fB\-v, \-\-verbose\fR .na Hmm. Really?? You might not want that option. .SH "PROJECTS AND PUBLICATIONS" .na See projects and publications \%<\fIhttps://zhengnanli.gitlab.io/pub\fR>. .SH "SUPPORTED EXTENSIONS" .na \fB.m\fR \fB.py\fR \fB.cpp\fR \fB.jl\fR \fB.sh\fR .SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES" .na .TP \fBLANG\fR .na \fBzh_CN.GB2312\fR \fBen_US.utf\-8\fR .TP \fBLOCALE\fR .na Tuscaloosa, AL, USA .TP \fBPGP_KEY\fR .na \fB0xA612AA8320563BE7\fR \%<\fIhttps://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by\-fingerprint/74BF65935C77CD3552202C6DA612AA8320563BE7\fR> .TP \fBCONFIG\fR .na \fBhyprland\fR \fBdunst\fR \fBwaybar\fR \fBrofi\fR \fBfish\fR \fBstarship\fR \fBzellij\fR \fBhelix\fR \fBghostty\fR \fBmpv\fR \fBnewsboat\fR \fBneomutt\fR .TP \fBTOOLS\fR .na \fBnumpy\fR \fBboost\fR \fBeigen\fR \fBhighway\fR \fBns\-3\fR \fBGNURadio\fR \fBUSRP\fR .SH "INSTALLATION" .na Proprietary. Not for sale. Free, though: this page is also a POSIX shell script at /zli \%<\fIhttps://zhengnanli.gitlab.io/zli\fR> and a roff manual at /zli.1 \%<\fIhttps://zhengnanli.gitlab.io/zli.1\fR>, both generated from it on every build, so \fBzli \-c\fR in a terminal says what the page says. .PP .na .RS 3 .nf curl \-O https://zhengnanli.gitlab.io/zli && chmod +x zli && ./zli curl \-O https://zhengnanli.gitlab.io/zli.1 && man ./zli.1 .fi .RE .na .SH "SEE ALSO" .na GitHub \%<\fIhttps://github.com/zhengnanli\fR>, GitLab \%<\fIhttps://gitlab.com/zhengnanli\fR>, Google Scholar \%<\fIhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YX35jNQAAAAJ&hl=en\fR>, and Blog \%<\fIhttps://zhengnanli.gitlab.io/blog\fR>. .SH "KNOWN BUGS" .na Probably. See \fB:help todo\fR for a list of known problems. .PP .na .RS 3 .nf ________ < Howdy! > \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- \e ^__^ \e (oo)\e_______ (__)\e )\e/\e ||\-\-\-\-w | || || .fi .RE .na