Principal Investigator

Lili Su

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Khoury College of Computer Sciences (by courtesy)

Co-Director of the Center for Signal Processing, Imaging, Reasoning, and Learning (SPIRAL)

Core Faculty Member of the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT)

Core Faculty Member of the Institute for Experiential AI (EAI)

Northeastern University

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Email: l.su@northeastern.edu (primary)/ lilisu3@csail.mit.edu (only used when my primary email does not work)

Phone: (808)4433198

Office: 409 Dana Research Center, 100 Forsyth St, Boston, MA 02115

 I am looking for self-motivated PhD students and Postdocs with interests and expertise in distributed machine learning, system defense and fault-tolerance, optimization, and cyber-physical systems!

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with a courtesy appointment in Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University.

From 2017-2020, I was a Postdoc in Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), MIT. I got my Ph.D degree and Master degree from UIUC ECE in 2017 and 2014, respectively.

Selected Awards and Honors

• NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2024 
• Sony Faculty Innovation Award, Sony AI, 2022
• Best Student Paper Award Runner-up,  The 30th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), 2016
• Best Student Paper Award, The 17th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, 2015
• Rising Stars in EECS, 2018
• Sundaram Seshu International Student Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2016-2017
• (Service Award) Outstanding Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Communication, 2015