Jing Li
Associate Professor, Computer Science
- jingli@njit.edu
- 973-642-7198
- 4419 Guttenberg Information Technologies Center (GITC)
About Me
Jing Li is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Her research interests include real-time systems, parallel computing, cyber-physical systems, and reinforcement learning for system design and optimization. She has high impact publications in top journals and conferences with 3 outstanding paper awards. Jing is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 2024 and the Department of Energy Early Career Research Program (ECRP) Award in 2023.
Education
Ph.D.; Washington University in St Louis; Computer Science; 2017
M.S.; Washington University in St Louis; Computer Science; 2014
Website
2026 Fall Courses
CS 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN CS
DS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
CS 489 - COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH PROJ
DS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
CS 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
DS 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN DS
DS 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
DS 701C - MASTER'S THESIS
DS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
CS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
CS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
CS 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
DS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
CS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
DS 792B - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
CS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
Past Courses
CS 241: FOUNDATIONS OF COMP SCIENCE I
CS 332: PRINCIPLES OF OPER SYS
CS 506: FOUND COMPUTER SCIENCE
CS 630: OPERATING SYSTEM DESIGN
CS 630: OPERATING SYSTEMS DESIGN
CS 669: REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
CS 786: SEL TOP IN COM INF SCI II
DS 669: REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
Research Interests
Real-Time and Cyber-Physical Systems;
Parallel Computing;
Reinforcement Learning for System Design and Optimization;
Scheduling and Operations Research.
Parallel Computing;
Reinforcement Learning for System Design and Optimization;
Scheduling and Operations Research.
Conference Proceeding
"Faster Classification of Time-Series Input Streams"
37th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS'25), July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2025.
37th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS'25), July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2025.
"PairUpLight: A Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Approach for Coordinated Multi-intersection Traffic Signal Control"
45th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'25), July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2025.
45th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'25), July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2025.
"FlexStep: Enabling Flexible Error Detection in Multi/Many-core Real-time Systems"
62nd Design Automation Conference (DAC'25), June, 2025.
62nd Design Automation Conference (DAC'25), June, 2025.
"MATCH: Real-Time Scheduling of Multiple and Parallel Data Copies in Heterogeneous Architectures"
IEEE 31st Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS'25), May, 2025.
IEEE 31st Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS'25), May, 2025.
" Understanding and Estimating Error Propagation in Neural Networks for Scientific Data Analysis"
IEEE 41st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'25), May, 2025.
IEEE 41st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'25), May, 2025.
"MANGO: A Benchmark for Evaluating Mapping and Navigation Abilities of Large Language Models"
Conference on Language Modeling (COLM), October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2024.
Conference on Language Modeling (COLM), October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2024.
"Few-Shot Character Understanding in Movies as an Assessment to Meta-Learning of Theory-of-Mind"
41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2024.
41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2024.
"LaMAGIC: Language-Model-based Topology Generation for Analog Integrated Circuits"
41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2024.
41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2024.
"A Cache/Algorithm Co-design for Parallel Real-Time Systems with Data Dependency on Multi/Many-core System-on-Chips"
ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC'24), June, 2024.
ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC'24), June, 2024.
"Graph-Transformer-based Surrogate Model for Accelerated Converter Circuit Topology Design"
ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC'24), June, 2024.
ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC'24), June, 2024.
"Energy Efficient Real-Time Scheduling on Heterogeneous Architectures with Self-Suspension Model"
ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED’23), August, 2023.
ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED’23), August, 2023.
"Precise Scheduling of DAG Tasks with Dynamic Power Management"
Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS’23), July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2023.
Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS’23), July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2023.
"Generalizable Reinforcement Learning-Based Coarsening Model for Resource Allocation over Large and Diverse Stream Processing Graphs"
IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS’23), May, 2023.
IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS’23), May, 2023.
"Provably Good Randomized Strategies for Data Placement in Distributed Key-Value Stores"
ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP’23), March, 2023.
ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP’23), March, 2023.
"SafeLight: A Reinforcement Learning Method toward Collision-free Traffic Signal Control"
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’23), February, 2023.
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’23), February, 2023.
" MBTI Personality Prediction for Fictional Characters Using Movie Scripts"
Findings of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’22 Findings, 22% acceptance rate), December, 2022.
Findings of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’22 Findings, 22% acceptance rate), December, 2022.
"Achieving Low Latency in Public Edges by Hiding Workloads Mutual Interference"
ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC 2022), November, 2022.
ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC 2022), November, 2022.
"A Survey of Machine Narrative Reading Comprehension Assessments"
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'22 Survey Track, 18% acceptance rate), July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2022.
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'22 Survey Track, 18% acceptance rate), July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2022.
"TVShowGuess: Character Comprehension in Stories as Speaker Guessing"
Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL'22), July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2022.
Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL'22), July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2022.
"From Specification to Topology: Automatic Power Converter Design via Reinforcement Learning"
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design Proceedings (ICCAD’21), November, 2021.
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design Proceedings (ICCAD’21), November, 2021.
" AMCilk: A Framework for Multiprogrammed Parallel Workloads"
IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC’20), December, 2020.
IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC’20), December, 2020.
" Hard-Real-Time Routing in Probabilistic Graphs to Minimize Expected Delay"
IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS'20), December, 2020.
IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS'20), December, 2020.
"The Safe and Effective Application of Probabilistic Techniques in Safety-Critical Systems"
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design Proceedings (ICCAD'20), November, 2020.
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design Proceedings (ICCAD'20), November, 2020.
"Maximizing Throughput in Flow Shop Real-Time Scheduling"
The 23rd International Conference on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (APPROX 2020), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), August, 2020.
The 23rd International Conference on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (APPROX 2020), Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), August, 2020.
"Real-Time Scheduling upon a Host-Centric Acceleration Architecture with Data Offloading"
IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS'20), April (2nd Quarter/Spring), 2020.
IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS'20), April (2nd Quarter/Spring), 2020.
"Generalizable Resource Allocation in Stream Processing via Deep Reinforcement Learning"
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'20), February, 2020.
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'20), February, 2020.
"Practically Efficient Scheduler for Minimizing Average Flow Time of Parallel Jobs"
33rd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, May, 2019.
33rd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, May, 2019.
"Reservation-Based Federated Scheduling for Parallel Real-Time Tasks"
39th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, December, 2018.
39th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, December, 2018.
"Scheduling Parallelizable Jobs Online to Maximize Throughput"
Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Informatics, April (2nd Quarter/Spring), 2018.
Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Informatics, April (2nd Quarter/Spring), 2018.
"Brief Announcement: Scheduling Parallelizable Jobs Online to Maximize Throughput"
Proceedings of the 29th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures, July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2017.
Proceedings of the 29th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures, July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2017.
Journal Article
Wenlu Du, Ankan Dash, Jing Li, Hua Wei, Guiling Wang. 2023. "Safety in Traffic Management Systems: A Comprehensive Survey." MDPI Designs.
An Zou, Jing Li, Chris Gill, Xuan Zhang. 2023. "Real-Time GPU Scheduling of Hard Deadline Parallel Tasks with Fine-Grain Utilization." IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS).
Shaoze Fan, Shun Zhang, Jianbo Liu , Ningyuan Cao, Xiaoxiao Guo, Jing Li, Xin Zhang. 2022. "Power Converter Circuit Design Automation using Parallel Monte Carlo Tree Search." ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES).
Zhe Wang, Chen Xu, Kunal Agrawal, Jing Li. 2022. "Adaptive Scheduling of Multiprogrammed Dynamic-Multithreading Applications." Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC).
Jiang Bian, Abdullah Al Arafat, Haoyi Xiong, Jing Li, Li Li, Hongyang Chen, Jun Wang, Dejing Dou, Zhishan Guo. 2022. "Machine Learning in Real-Time Internet of Things (IoT) Systems: A Survey." IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IOTJ).
Lanshun Nie, Chenghao Fan, Shuang Lin, Li Zhang, Yajuan Li, Jing Li. 2021. "Holistic Resource Allocation under Federated Scheduling for Parallel Real-Time Tasks." ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS).
Kunal Agrawal, Sanjoy Baruah, Pontus Ekberg, Jing Li. 2020. "Optimal Scheduling of Measurement-Based Parallel Real-Time Tasks." Real-Time Systems (RTS), vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 247-253.
Weizhe Zhang, Enci Bai, Jing Li. 2020. "Speeding up the Schedulability Analysis and Priority Assignment of Sporadic Tasks under Uniprocessor FPNS." IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), vol. 16, no. 10, pp. 6382-6392.
James Orr, Christopher Gill, Kunal Agrawal, Jing Li, Sanjoy Baruah. 2019. "Elastic Scheduling for Parallel Real-Time Systems." Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 05:1-14.
Son Dinh, Jing Li, Kunal Agrawal, Christopher Gill, Chenyang Lu. 2018. "Blocking Analysis for Spin Locks in Real-Time Parallel Tasks." IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 789-802.
Jing Li, David Ferry, Shaurya Ahuja, Kunal Agrawal, Christopher Gill, Chenyang Lu. 2017. "Mixed-criticality federated scheduling for parallel real-time tasks." Real-Time Systems, vol. 53, no. 5, pp. 760-811.
Chapter
Jing Li, Kunal Agrawal, Chenyang Lu. "Parallel Real-Time Scheduling." "Handbook of Real-Time Computing," Springer, 2021.