Jing Li
Associate Professor, Computer Science
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

2025 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 669 - REINFORCEMENT LEARNING

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 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.
Conference Proceeding
"Faster Classification of Time-Series Input Streams"
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.

"FlexStep: Enabling Flexible Error Detection in Multi/Many-core Real-time Systems"
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.

" Understanding and Estimating Error Propagation in Neural Networks for Scientific Data Analysis"
IEEE 41st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'25), May, 2025.

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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) .

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Chapter
Jing Li, Kunal Agrawal, Chenyang Lu. "Parallel Real-Time Scheduling." "Handbook of Real-Time Computing," Springer, 2021.