Ting Li, Ph.D.

I am an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Oxford College of Emory University. My research focuses on mobile crowd sensing, edge computing, privacy-preserving systems, indoor localization, and bike-sharing analytics. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from UNC Charlotte (2019), advised by Dr. Yu Wang.

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Last updated: March 2026.

Appointments

2021-present Assistant Professor
Computer Science, Oxford College of Emory University

Education

2019 Ph.D. in Computer Science
UNC Charlotte
Advisor: Dr. Yu Wang
2012 B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering
Xidian University, China

Research Interests

Mobile Crowd Sensing; Edge Computing; Privacy-Preserving Systems; Indoor Localization; Bike-Sharing Systems.

Publications

Journal Articles

2022 Youqi Li, Fan Li, Liehuang Zhu, Huijie Chen, Ting Li, and Yu Wang, "Fair Incentive Mechanism with Imperfect Quality in Privacy Preserving Crowdsensing," IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
2021 Ting Li, Zhijin Qiu, Lijuan Cao, Dazhao Cheng, Weichao Wang, Xinghua Shi, and Yu Wang, "Privacy-Preserving Participant Grouping for Mobile Social Sensing over Edge Clouds," IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.
2021 Yufeng Zhan, Yuanqing Xia, Jiang Zhang, Ting Li, and Yu Wang, "An Incentive Mechanism Design for Mobile Crowdsensing with Demand Uncertainties," Information Sciences.
2020 Ting Li, Taeho Jung, Zhijin Qiu, Hanshang Li, Lijuan Cao, and Yu Wang, "Scalable Privacy-Preserving Participant Selection for Mobile Crowdsensing Systems," IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.
2020 A B M Mohaimenur Rahman, Ting Li, and Yu Wang, "Recent Advances in Indoor Localization via Visible Lights: A Survey," Sensors.
2019 Wei Jing, Chao Liu, Ting Li, A B M Mohaimenur Rahman, Yu Wang, and Zhongwen Guo, "Path Planning and Navigation of Autonomous Sailboats and Vessels: A Survey," Journal of Ocean University of China.
2019 Hanshang Li, Ting Li, Weichao Wang, and Yu Wang, "Dynamic Participant Selection for Large-Scale Mobile Crowd Sensing," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
2019 Yue Wu, Fan Li, Liran Ma, Yadong Xie, Ting Li, and Yu Wang, "A Context-Aware Multi-Armed Bandit Incentive Mechanism for Mobile Crowd Sensing Systems," IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
2018 Yufeng Zhan, Yuanqing Xia, Jiang Zhang, Ting Li, and Yu Wang, "Crowdsensing Game with Demand Uncertainties: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach," arXiv preprint.
2018 Zhijin Qiu, Zhongwen Guo, Yu Wang, Chao Liu, and Ting Li, "Reconstruction Model of Ocean Observing Complex Virtual Instrument," Journal of Ocean University of China.
2017 Yu Wang, Hanshang Li, and Ting Li, "Participant Selection for Data Collection through Device-to-Device Communications in Mobile Sensing," Personal and Ubiquitous Computing.
2016 Fan Li, Chenfei Tian, Ting Li, and Yu Wang, "Energy Efficient Social Routing Framework for Mobile Social Sensing Networks," Tsinghua Science and Technology.

Conference Papers

2025 Victor Li*, Carson Lam*, Ting Li, "Gumbel-Based Active Sparse Mobile Crowd Sensing with Time Series Transformer," IPCCC 2025.
2025 Ting Li, Dan Han, A B M Mohaimenur Rahman, "Matching or Not: Stochastic Perfect Matching of Task Assignment in Mobile Crowd Sensing," BigCom 2025.
2024 Helen Jin*, Ting Li, "Participation Selection in Mobile Crowd Sensing with Diversity Ensures," ICNC 2024.
2018 Ting Li, Zhijin Qiu, Lijuan Cao, Zhongwen Guo, Fan Li, and Yu Wang, "Privacy-Preserving Participant Grouping in Mobile Crowdsensing over Hierarchical Edge Clouds," IPCCC 2018.
2018 Hanshang Li, Ting Li, Fan Li, and Yu Wang, "Cumulative Participant Selection with Switch Cost in Large-Scale Mobile Crowd Sensing," ICCCN 2018.
2018 Hanshang Li, Ting Li, and Yu Wang, "Multi-Expertise Aware Participant Selection in Mobile Crowd Sensing via Online Learning," MASS 2018.
2017 Ting Li, Taeho Jung, Hanshang Li, Lijuan Cao, Weichao Wang, Xiang-Yang Li, and Yu Wang, "Scalable Privacy-Preserving Participant Selection in Mobile Crowd Sensing," PerCom 2017.
2016 Hanshang Li, Ting Li, Xinghua Shi, and Yu Wang, "Data Collection through Device-to-Device Communications for Mobile Big Data Sensing," MCBDA 2016.
2016 Hanshang Li, Ting Li, Fan Li, Weichao Wang, and Yu Wang, "Enhancing Participant Selection through Caching in Mobile Crowd Sensing,"IWQoS 2016.
2015 Hanshang Li, Ting Li, and Yu Wang, "Dynamic Participant Recruitment of Mobile Crowd Sensing for Heterogeneous Sensing Tasks," Mass 2015.

Posters Papers & Presentations

2025 Victor Li*, Carson Lam*, Ting Li, "Gumbel-Based Active Sparse Mobile Crowd Sensing with Time Series Transformer," IPCCC 2025.
2025 Victor Li*, Steven Chen*, Ting Li,"Online Data Inference with Transformer Model in Mobile Crowd Sensing," ORS Symposium 2025.
2024 Lance Ding*, Andy Wu*, Kei Nie*, Chang Liu*, "A General Approach to Website Question Answering with Large Language Models,"IEEE SoutheastCon 2024..
2023 Helen Jin*, Yijun Liu*, Ting Li, "Redesigning Mobile Crowd Sensing's Selection Logic to Ensure Participant Diversity," IPCCC 2023.
2023 Zachary Hammond* and Ting Li,"Stable Matching Between Emory Campuses,"ORS Symposium 2023..
2023 Helen Jin*, Akhil Arularasu*, and Ting Li,"Redesigning MCS (Mobile Crowd Sensing)'s Selection Logic to Ensure Equality," ORS Symposium 2023. .
2021 Jessica Yoon* and Ting Li, "Evaluating the Current Bike Station Placements at Oxford by Analyzing Student Flow Spatially and Temporally," SORS 2021 and GURC 2021..
2021 Yijun Liu* and Ting Li,"One-to-One and One-to-Multiple User-Task Mapping in Task-Abundant Mobile Crowd Sensing," SORS 2021 and GURC 2021..
2021 Ting Li, "Saving More and Completing More with Data Mining in Mobile Crowd Sensing," CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women Workshop, 2021. .
2021 Amen Bedi* and Ting Li,"Posted Price with Quality Guarantee in Mobile Crowdsensing," ORS 2021. .
2020 Dusty Dang* and Ting Li, "Posted Price with Quality Guarantee in Sparse Mobile Crowdsensing during Certain Natural Phenomenon," SURE 2020..
2017 Ting Li, Hanshang Li, and Yu Wang, "Scalable Privacy-Preserving Participant Selection in Mobile Crowd Sensing," UNC Charlotte Annual Graduate Research Symposium, 2017..

The authors ending with * are undergraduate students at Oxford College of Emory University who did research under the supervision of Dr. Li.

Complete publication could be found in PDF CV.

Teaching

Courses
  • CS 170Q Introduction to Computer Science I - Sample syllabus
  • CS 171 Introduction to Computer Science II - Sample syllabus
  • CS 253 Data Structure and Algorithms - Sample syllabus
  • DSC 101Q Beauty of Algorithms
  • MLP 101 Milestone Project
  • CS 297RE Directed Study

Professional Services

TPC Member

  • IEEE MASS
  • IEEE SoutheastCon
  • IEEE IPCCC
  • IEEE ICCCN
  • BigCom

Journal Reviewer

  • ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
  • Sensors
  • Intelligent and Converged Networks
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications
  • IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • IEEE Communications Letters
  • IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
  • IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Big Data
  • Transactions on Sustainable Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
  • Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
  • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
  • Vehicular Communications
  • Optical and Quantum Electronics
  • International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
  • International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing

Conference Reviewer

  • IEEE INFOCOM
  • IEEE IPCCC
  • IEEE ICC
  • IEEE MSN
  • WASA
  • BigCom

Additional Roles

  • Guest Editor, MDPI Special Issues on MCS and related applications
  • Session Chair, IPCCC 2021
  • Judge, Undergraduate Research (CUR) Award at SIGCSE 2022
  • Program Committee, Tech for Women Track at Grace Hopper Conference 2021