Short Bio:

Tao Li obtained his Bachelor degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 2007 and then he moved to University of Florida for further study under the supervision of Dr. Shigang Chen. Currently he works at the headquarters of Google Inc., Mountain View, California. His research interests lie in Computer Networks, Cyber Security, Wireless Technologies, Cyber-physical Systems, Cloud Computing, and Data Streaming.

News:

  July, 2012: One paper is accepted by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON).

  June, 2012: Join Google.

May, 2012: Two books accepted by Springer Publisher.

March, 2012: Presentation "Privacy-preserving RFID Authentication based on Cryptographical Encoding" in INFOCOM 2012, Orlando, FL.

March, 2012: Passed the Ph.D. dissertation defense, cheers!!

Education:

08/2007 - 05/2012: Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Ph.D.

  09/2003 - 07/2007: Computer Science Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, B.E.

Research Interests:

  Internet Traffic Measurement, RFID technologies, Internet Security, Wireless Sensor Network.

Publications:  

Books:

1.    Tao Li, Shigang Chen, Traffic Measurement on the Internet, accepted by Springer Publisher. [new!] 

2.    Yan Qiao, Shigang Chen, Tao Li, RFID as an Infrastructure, accepted by Springer Publisher. [new!] 

Journal Articles:

1.    Tao Li, Shigang Chen, Wen Luo, Ming Zhang, Yan Qiao, Spreader Classification Based on Optimal Dynamic Bit Sharing, accepted by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON). [new!]

2.    Tao Li, Samuel Wu, Shigang Chen, Mark Yang, Generalized Energy-Efficient Algorithms for the RFID Estimation Problem, accepted by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON).

3.    Tao Li, Shigang Chen, Yibei Ling, Per-Flow Traffic Measurement through Randomized Counter Sharing, accepted by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON).

4.    Myungkeun Yoon, Tao Li, Shigang Chen, Jih-kwon Peir, Fit a Compact Spread Estimator in Small High-Speed Memory, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON). (directly accepted without revision), vol. 19, no. 5, October, 2011.

5.  Tao Li, Shigang Chen, Yibei Ling, Efficient Protocols for Identifying the Missing Tags in a Large RFID System, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), under the third round of review.

6.  Tao Li, Yan Qiao, Shigang Chen, An Efficient Approach for In-network Origin-Destination Flow Measurement, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), under review.

7.    Yan Qiao, Shigang Chen, Tao Li, Shiping Chen, Tag-ordering Polling Protocols in RFID Systems, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), under review.  

8.    Wen Luo, Yan Qiao, Shigang Chen, Tao Li, Missing-tag Detection and Energy-Time Tradeoff in Large-scale RFID Systems with Unreliable Channels, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), under review.

9.  Yan Qiao, Tao Li, Shigang Chen, Fast Bloom Filters and Their Generalization, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), under review.

10. Ming Zhang, Tao Li, Shigang Chen, Bo Li, Using Analog Network Coding to Improve Reading Throughput in RFID Systems, under submission. 

Conference Papers:

1.      Yan Qiao, Tao Li, Shigang Chen, Zhen Mo, MyungKeun Yoon, Seon-Ho Sin, Large-scale RFID Systems with Unreliable Channels, in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), under review.

2.      Wen Luo, Shigang Chen, Tao Li, Yan Qiao, Probabilistic Missing-tag Detection and Energy-Time Tradeoff in Large-scale RFID Systems, in Proc. of ACM MOBIHOC, Hilton Head Island, SC, USA, June, 2012. Acceptance Rate: 20.0% (24 out of 120). [new!]

3.      Tao Li, Wen Luo, Zhen Mo, Shigang Chen, Privacy-preserving RFID Authentication based on Cryptographical Encoding, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, Orlando, FL, USA, March, 2012. Acceptance Rate: 17.9% (278 out of 1547). [new!]

4.      Tao Li, Shigang Chen, Yan Qiao, Origin-Destination Flow Measurement in High-Speed Networks, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM Mini-Conference, Orlando, FL, USA, March, 2012. [new!]

5.      Yan Qiao, Shigang Chen, Tao Li, Shiping Chen, Energy-Efficient Polling Protocols in RFID Systems, in Proc. of ACM MOBIHOC, Paris, France, May, 2011. Acceptance Rate: 19.7% (25 out of 127).

6.      Tao Li, Shigang Chen, Yibei Ling, Fast and Compact Per-Flow Traffic Measurement through Randomized Counter Sharing, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, Shanghai, China, April, 2011. Acceptance Rate: 15.9% (291 out of 1823).

7.      Tao Li, Shigang Chen, Wen Luo, Ming Zhang, Scan Detection in High-Speed Networks Based on Optimal Dynamic Bit Sharing, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, Shanghai, China, April, 2011. Acceptance Rate: 15.9% (291 out of 1823).

8.      Yan Qiao, Tao Li, Shigang Chen, One Memory Access Bloom Filters and Their Generalization, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, Shanghai, China, April, 2011. Acceptance Rate: 15.9% (291 out of 1823).

9.      Wen Luo, Shigang Chen, Tao Li, Shiping Chen, Efficient Missing Tag Detection in RFID Systems, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM Mini-Conference, Shanghai, China, April, 2011. Acceptance Rate: 23.4% (291+136 out of 1823).

10.  Tao Li, Shigang Chen, Yibei Ling, Identifying the Missing Tags in a Large RFID System, in Proc. of ACM MOBIHOC, Chicago, IL, USA, September, 2010. Acceptance Rate: 16.9% (26 out of 154).

11.  Tao Li, Samuel Wu, Shigang Chen, Mark Yang, Energy Efficient Algorithms for the RFID Estimation Problem, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, San Diego, CA, USA, March, 2010. Acceptance Rate: 17.5% (276 out of 1575).

12.  Ming Zhang, Tao Li, Shigang Chen, Bo Li, Using Analog Network Coding to Improve the RFID Reading Throughput, in Proc. of IEEE ICDCS, Genoa, Italy, June, 2010. Acceptance Rate: 14.3% (84 out of 585).

13.  Tao Li, Shigang Chen, Ming Zhang, Alin Dobra, Optimal Integration of Probabilistic Sampling and Bit Sharing for Scan Detection in High-Speed Networks, in Proc. of ACM SIGMETRICS (Accepted Poster), New York, NY, USA, June, 2010.

14.  Myungkeun Yoon, Tao Li, Shigang Chen, Jih-kwon Peir, Fit a Spread Estimator in Small Memory, in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April, 2009. Acceptance Rate: 19.7% (282 out of 1435).

15.  Qiankun Miao, Guangzhong Sun, Tao Li, Guoliang Chen, Parallel Algorithm on Some Parallel Computational Models, Computer Engineering and Applications, 2007.

Teaching:

 COP 3530 Data Structures & Algorithms, Spring, 2012

Talk:

 Infocom'12, Orlando, FL, USA, March, 2012   

 Privacy-preserving RFID Authentication based on Cryptographical Encoding.

 Infocom'11, Shanghai, China, April, 2011   

 Fast and Compact Per-Flow Traffic Measurement through Randomized Counter Sharing.

 Scan Detection in High-Speed Networks Based on Optimal Dynamic Bit Sharing.

 Infocom'10, San Diego, California, March, 2010   

 Energy Efficient Algorithms for the RFID Estimation Problem.

 MobiHoc'10, Chicago, Illinois, September, 2010                                                                              

 Identifying the Missing Tags in a Large RFID System.

Buddies:

 Gators: Ying Xuan, Ting Chen, Hechen Liu, Meizhu Liu, Zhuo Huang, Ying Jian.

 USTCers: Jinfeng Zhuang, Jiliang Wang, Zhangjin Huang, Peng Li, Xiang Cai, Yupu Zhang.