CurriculumVita Shengli Fu

Ph.D., Associate Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering

University of North Texas, Denton TX

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Education

Year / Degree / Major / Institution
2005 / Ph.D. / Electrical Engineering / University of Delaware, Newark, DE
2002 / M.S. / Computer Engineering / Wright State University, Dayton, OH
1997 / M.S. / Communication and Electronic System / Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China
1994 / B.S. / Telecommunication Engineering / Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

Professional Experience

Years / Position / Organization
09/2011- Present / Associate Professor / Department of Electrical Engineering
University of North Texas, Denton, TX
10/2005 –08/2011 / Assistant Professor / Department of Electrical Engineering
University of North Texas, Denton, TX
09/2002 – 09/2005 / Research Assistant / Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Delaware, Newark, DE
09/2000 – 08/2002 / Research Assistant / Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Wright State University, Dayton, OH
05/1997 – 08/2000 / Senior Engineer / Beijing Design Institute of Posts and Telecommunications, Ministry of Information Industry, Beijing, China
09/1995 – 04/1997 / Research Assistant / R&D Center for CDMA Mobile Communications, Ministry of Information Industry, Beijing, China

Research Interests

  • Modulation, Coding and Information Theory
  • Wireless Communications and Sensor Networks
  • Cooperative Communications and Networks
  • Pattern Recognition and Audio/Visual Signal Processing

Publications

Thesis/Dissertation

[T1]Space-Time Coding and Decoding for MIMO Wireless Communication Systems. Dissertation, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2005.

[T2]Audio/Visual Mapping Based on Hidden Markov Models. Thesis, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, 2002.

[T3]Design and Simulation of Variable Rate Vocoder for CDMA Mobile Communication Systems. Thesis, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, 1997.

Refereed Journal Articles

  • Journal articles published (and accepted)

[J1]Jing Yan, Yan Wan, Shengli Fu, Junfei Xie, and Songwei Li, RSSI-based decentralized control for robust long-distance aerial networks using directional antennas, IET Control Theory and Applications, published online, February 2017.

[J2]Shengli Fu and Yan Wan, “Communicating in Remote Areas or Disaster Situations using Unmanned AerialVehicles,” HDIAC Journal, pp. 4-8, vol. 2, no. 4, Winter 2016.

[J3]Yan Wan, Shengli. Fu, Justyna. Zander, and Peter J. Mosterman, "Transforming On-Demand Communications withDrones: The Needs, Analyses, and Solutions," Homeland Security Today Magazine, pp. 32-35, April/May 2015.

[J4]Junfei Xie, Yan Wan, Jae H. Kim, Shengli Fu, and Kamesh Namuduri, “A survey and analysis of mobility models for airborne networks,” IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 1221 – 1238, 2014.

[J5]Yan Wan, Kamesh Namuduri, Yi Zhou, and Shengli Fu, “A smooth-turn mobility model for airborne networks,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 62, no. 7, pp. 3359-3370, Sep. 2013.

[J6]Zeyu Zheng, Shengli Fu, Kejie Lu, Jianping Wang, and Biao Chen, “On the relay selection for cooperative wireless networks with physical-layer network coding,” Springer/ACM: Wireless Networks,vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 653-665, Aug.2012.

[J7]Tao Zhang, Kejie Lu, Shengli Fu, Yi Qian, Wang Liu, and Jianping Wang, “Improving the capacity of large-scale wireless networks with network-assisted coding schemes,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications,vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 88-96, Jan. 2012.

[J8]Ning Xu and Shengli Fu, "On the performance of two-way relay channels using space-time codes," International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley, DOI: 10.1002/dac.1205, Jan. 2011.

[J9]Shengli Fu, Kejie Lu, Tao Zhang, Yi Qian, and Hsiao-Hwa Chen, “Cooperative wireless networks based on physical layer network coding,” IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 86-95, May 2010.

[J10]Jue Yang, Chengyang Zhang, Xinrong Li, Yan Huang, Shengli Fu, and Miguel Acevedo, “Integration of wireless sensor networks in environmental monitoring cyber infrastructure,” Springer/ACM: Wireless Networks, June 2009.

[J11]Shengli Fu, Xiang-Gen Xia, and Haiquan Wang, “Recursive space-time trellis codes using differential encoding,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 531-546, Feb. 2009.

[J12]Adam Skelton and Shengli Fu, “An improved conditional maximum-likelihood detector for noncoherent UWB communication,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 7-9, Jan. 2009.

[J13]Kejie Lu, Shengli Fu, Yi Qian, and Hsiao-Hwa Chen, “On capacity of random wireless networks with physical-layer network coding,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 763-772, June 2009.

[J14]Kejie Lu, Yi Qian, Hsiao-Hwa Chen, and Shengli Fu, “WiMax networks: from access to service platform,” IEEE Network Magazine, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 38-45, May-June 2008.

[J15]Shengli Fu, Hanqing Lou, Xiang-Gen Xia, and Javier Garcia-Frias, “LDGM coded space-time trellis codes from differential encoding”, IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 61 - 63, Jan. 2007.

[J16]Kejie Lu, Shengli Fu, and Xiang-Gen Xia, “Closed Form Designs of Complex Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes of Rate (k+1)/(2k) for 2k or 2k+1 Transmit Antennas,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 51, no. 12, pp. 4340 - 4347, Dec. 2005.

[J17]Shengli Fu, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna, Anna Esposito, Praveen Kakumanu, and Oscar N. Garcia, “Audio/Visual mapping with cross-modal Hidden Markov Models,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 243-252, Apr. 2005.

[J18]Shengli Fu, Genyuan Wang, and Xiang-Gen Xia, “Iterative decoding of orthogonal space-time coded CPM systems,” Springer: Wireless Personal Communications, vol.31, no.3-4, pp.249-265, Dec. 2004, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Refereed Conference Papers

[C1]Mitchell J. Grabner*, Xinrong Li, and Shengli Fu, “A novel soft-output decoding method for integer spacetime block codes”, The IEEE MTT 2017 Texas Symposium on Wireless and Microwave Circuits andSystems, Waco, TX, March 2017.

[C2]Songwei Li, Yan Wan, Shengli Fu, and Flex W. Wu, “The design and implementation of a remote UAV-based mobile health monitoring system,” Nondestructive Characterization and Monitoring of Advanced Materials, Aerospace, and Civil Infrastructure, and Transportation XI, SPIE Smart Structures/NDE, March 2017.

[C3]Jing Yan, Yan Wan, Junfei Xie, Shengli Fu, ``RSSI and Consensus based Heading Control for Robust Long-range Aerial Networking using Directional Antennae’’, in Proceedings of American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, May 2017.

[C4]Junfei. Xie, Firas Al-Emrani, Yixin Gu, Yan Wan and Shengli Fu, “UAV-Carried Long Distance Wi-Fi Communication Infrastructure”, in Proceedings of AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, San Diego, January 2016.

[C5]Justyna Zander, Pieter J. Mosterman, Taskin Padir, Yan Wan, and Shengli Fu, “Cyber-physical systems to make emergency response smart,” in Proceedings of 2015 HumTech: Humanitarian Technology: Science, Systems and Global Impact 2015.

[C6]Yixin Gu, Mi Zhou, Shengli Fu, and Yan Wan, “Airborne WiFi networks through directional antennae: An experimental study'’, in Proceedings of 2015 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2015, Best Paper Award.

[C7]Mahendra Talasila, Shengli Fu and Yan Wan, “'Energy conservative distributed average consensus through connected dominating set”, in Proceedings of 2015 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2015.

[C8]Junfei Xie, Yan Wan, Kamesh Namuduri, Shengli Fu, G. L. Peterson, and J. F. Raquet, ``Estimation and Validation of the 3D Smooth-Turn Mobility Model for Airborne Networks,” in Proceedings of IEEE Military Communication Conference, November 2013.

[C9]Junfei Xie, Yan Wan, Jae H. Kim, Shengli Fu, and Kamesh Namuduri, “An analysis of mobility models for airborne networks,”in Proceedings of IEEE Military Communication Conference, November 2013.

[C10]Junfei Xie, Yan Wan, Kamesh Namuduri, Shengli Fu, and Jae H. Kim, “A compressive modeling framework for aerial mobility,” in Proceedings of AIAA Infotech@Aerospace Conference, Boston, August 2013.

[C11]Vardhman Sheth, Marigona Bokshi, Eric Pruett, Yan Wan, Shengli Fu, and Kamesh Namuduri, “A Testbed for multi-domain communicatio networks using Lego Mindstorms,” AIAA Infotech@Aerospace Conference, Boston, August 2013.

[C12]Yan Wan, Kamesh Namduri, Yi Zhou, Dayin He, and Shengli Fu, “A Smooth Turn Mobility Model for Airborne Networks”, ACM Mobihoc Conference, June 2012.

[C13]Li Li, Kamesh Namuduri, and Shengli Fu, “Cooperative communication based on random beamforiming strategy in wireless sensor networks,” IEEE Globecom 2012.

[C14]Ning Xu, Shengli Fu, Dong Wang, and Yabo Li, “Block relay for physical layer network coding,” IEEE Globecom 2012.

[C15]Kaiqian Ou, Yinlong Xu, and Shengli Fu, “Rate selection for wireless networks with intra- and inter-session network coding,” IEEE Globecom 2012.

[C16]Yan Wan, Kamesh Namduri, Yi Zhou*, Dayin. He*, and Shengli Fu, “A Smooth Turn Mobility Model for AirborneNetworks”, ACM Mobihoc Conference, June 2012.

[C17]Shengli Fu, Dong Wang, Hongqiang Zhai, and Yabo Li, “An enhanced link adapatation for the MB-OFDM UWB system,” IEEE WCNC, pp. 2070-2075, April 1 - 4, 2012.

[C18]Shengli Fu, Tao Zhang, and Michael Colef, "Secrecy in two-way relay systems," IEEE Globecom 2010.

[C19]Oluwayomi Adamo, Shengli Fu, and Murali Varanasi, "Physical layer error correction based cipher," IEEE Globecom 2010.

[C20]Kejie Lu, Wang Liu, Jianping Wang, Tao Zhang, and Shengli Fu, “Achieving the capacity bounds of multicast in large-scale wireless networks,” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2010), Austin, Texas, June 13-18, 2010.

[C21]Tao Zhang, Kejie Lu, Ayat Jafari, Shengli Fu, and Yi Qian, “On the capacity bounds of large-scale wireless network with physical-layer network coding under the generalized physical model,” IEEE CoCoNet Workshop 2010,Cape Town, South Africa, May 23-27, 2010

[C22]Kejie Lu, Shengli Fu, Yi Qian, and Hsiao-Hwa Chen, “SER performance analysis for physical layer network coding over AWGN channel,” IEEE Globecom 2009.

[C23]Dong Wang and Shengli Fu, “Channel coding design to support asynchronous physical layer network coding,” IEEE Globecom 2009.

[C24]Ning Xu and Shengli Fu, “Performance analysis of space-time codes over two-way relay channels,” IEEE Military Communications Conference (Milcom’09), 2009.

[C25]Kejie Lu, Shengli Fu, Yi Qian, and Tao Zhang, “On the security performance of physical-layer network coding,” IEEE ICC 2009.

[C26]Jue Yang, Chengyang Zhang, Xinrong Li, Yan Huang, Shengli Fu, and Miguel Acevedo, “An environmental monitoring system with integrated wired and wireless sensors,” International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications, pp. 224-236, Dallas, TX, 2008.

[C27]Oluwayomi Adamo, Shengli Fu, and Murali Varanasi, “Hardware-efficient encryption encoder and decoder unit,” IEEE Military Communications Conference (Milcom’08), 2008.

[C28]Oscar N. Garcia, Shengli Fu, and Xinrong Li, “When collective dynamic knowledge is greater than the sum of its parts: the case for mobile wireless sensor networks,” International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN 2008), pp. 553-562, July 2008.

[C29]Kejie Lu, Tao Zhang, Yi Qian, and Shengli Fu, “A novel topology control scheme for future wireless mesh networks,” IEEE Globecom’08, 2008.

[C30]Dong Wang and Shengli Fu, “A decentralized relay strategy for asynchronous cooperative communications,” IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC’08), 2008.

[C31]Kejie Lu, Shengli Fu, and Yi Qian, “Capacity of random wireless networks: impact of cooperative network coding,” IEEE ICC’08, pp. 3903-3907, May 19-23, 2008.

[C32]Kejie Lu, Shengli Fu, Yi Qian, and Sastri Kota, “A novel architecture for future wireless mesh networks,” IEEE Military Communications Conference (Milcom’07), 2007.

[C33]Dong Wang and Shengli Fu, “Asynchronous cooperative communications with STBC coded single carrier block transmission,” IEEE Globecom 2007, pp. 2987 – 2991, Washington DC, USA, Nov. 2007.

[C34]Shengli Fu, Kejie Lu, Yi Qian, and Murali Varanasi, “Cooperative network coding for wireless Ad-Hoc networks,” IEEE Globecom 2007, pp. 812 – 816, Washington DC, USA, Nov. 2007.

[C35]Kejie Lu, Shengli Fu, Yi Qian, and Hsiao-Hwa Chen, “Increasing the throughput of wireless LANs via cooperative retransmission”, IEEE Globecom 2007, pp. 5231 – 5235, Washington DC, USA, Nov. 2007.

[C36]Kejie Lu, Shengli Fu, Tao Zhang, and Yi Qian, “On the design of future wireless Ad-Hoc networks,” IEEE Globecom 2007, pp. 1097 – 1101, Washington DC, USA, Nov. 2007.

[C37]Kejie Lu, Tao Zhang, Shengli Fu, Yi Qian, Ashwin Gumaste, and S.-Q. Zheng, “A design principle for future high-speed networks”, in Proceedings of High-Speed Networks Workshop 2007, in conjunction with IEEE Infocom'07, May 6-12, 2007, Anchorage, Alaska.

[C38]Kejie Lu, Yi Qian, and Shengli Fu, “Enhancing the performance of wireless LANs in error-prone environment,” IEEE Globecom’06, pp. 1-5, San Francisco, CA, USA, Nov. 2006.

[C39]Shengli Fu, Haiquan Wang, and Xiang-Gen Xia, “New recursive space-time trellis codes from general differential encoding”, IEEEInformation Theory Workshop, pp. 606 - 610, Chengdu, China, Oct. 2006.

[C40]Shengli Fu, Xiang-Gen Xia, and Haiquan Wang, “Recursive space-time trellis codes using differential encoding”, in Proc. Globecom’05, vol. 3, pp. 1625 – 1629, St. Louis, Missouri, 28 November – 2 December, 2005.

[C41]Kejie Lu, Shengli Fu, and Xiang-Gen Xia, “Closed form designs of complex orthogonal space-time block codes of rates (k+1)/(2k) for 2k or 2k+1 transmit antennas,” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pp. 307, Chicago, 27 June - 2 Jul. 2004.

Patent

[P1]Augmented reality interface and method of use, US Patent number: 8922590, Inventors: James Albert Luckett, JR., Chad Michael Rowlee, Shengli Fu,Granted in 2015.

[P2]Wireless server access control system and method, US Patent number: 8943569, Inventors: James Albert Luckett, JR., Chad Michael Rowlee, Shengli Fu,Granted in 2015.

[P3]System and method for multi-residue multivariate data compression, US Patent number: 9026506, Inventors: Oscar N. Garcia, Shengli Fu, Jyothy Melaedavattil Jaganathan, Granted in 2015.

[P4]Systems and methods for dual operation of unmanned aerial vehicles, Shengli Fu and Yan Wan, filed in 2016.

Received Grants

External

  • Co-PI, EAGER: Aerial Communication Infrastructure for Smart Emergency Response

Source: National Science Foundation(NSF)

Award amount: $199,904, Period: 06/06/2015 – 05/31/2017

  • PI, I-Corps Teams: Drone-carried WiFi Communication Infrastructure

Source: National Science Foundation(NSF)

Award amount: $50,000, Period: 02/01/2015 – 07/31/2015

  • PI, Design and Development of Portable Computing System

Source: Myth Innovations, Inc., Dallas, TX

Awarded amount: $81,930, Period: 01/01/2014 – 12/31/2014

  • Co-PI, Summer Training Experience for K-12 Teachers in Control Engineering

Source: IEEE Control System Society

Awarded amount: $5,000, Period: 06/2013-05/2014

  • PI, Optimizing Student Learning Outcomes: A Comparative Study of Onsite, Virtual, and Remote Laboratories in Electrical Engineering

Source: National Science Foundation (NSF)

Awardedamount: $199,809,Period: 09/2011 – 08/2014

  • Senior Personnel, RET Site: Research Experience for Teachers in Sensor Networks

Source: National Science Foundation (NSF)

Awardedamount: $499,932, Period: 06/2011 – 05/2014

  • Co-PI, Supplemental REU Award for CI-TEAM Demonstration Project: Engaging local governments, teachers, and students in CI for environmental monitoring and modeling

Source: National Science Foundation (NSF),

Awardedamount: $12,225, Period: 06/2009 – 09/2009

  • Co-PI, CRI: IAD Infrastructure for Environmental Monitoring and Modeling using Large-Scale Sensor Networks

Source:National Science Foundation (NSF),

Awardedamount: $250,000, Period: 10/2007 – 09/2010

  • Co-PI, CI-TEAM: Demonstration Project: Engaging Local Governments, Teachers and Students in CI for Environmental Monitoring and Modeling

Source: National Science Foundation (NSF),

Awardedamount: $249,889, Period: 10/2006-09/2008

  • PI, FPGA Implementation of Reed-Solomon Codes,

Source: Broadband Instruments, Austin, TX,

Awarded amount: $10,116,Period:06/2006 -09/2006

Internal

  • Co-PI, 2014 Community Engagement Grant

Source: UNT, with PI: Dr. Oscar Garcia

Awarded amount: $7,000, Period: 01/2014-12/2014

  • Co-PI, I-GRO: UNT-China Collaboration Initiative: International Workshop on Airborne Networks

Source: UNT, with PI: Dr. Yan Wan

Awarded amount: $10,000, Period: 01/2014-12/2014

  • Co-PI, ROP: A Mobillity-Driven Framework to Enable Robust Airborne Networking

Source: UNT, with PI: Dr. Yan Wan and Co-PI: Dr. Kamesh Namuduri

Awarded amount: $7,500, Period: 09/2013-08/2014

  • PI, A Blended Learning Approach to Teaching EENG 3510: Electronics I

Source: UNT Learning Enhancement Grant,

Awardedamount: $5,000,Period: 01/2009 – 09/2009

  • Co-PI, Environmental monitoring research infrastructure at Discovery Park for environmental, energy and sensor networks research

Source:UNT Research Infrastructure Support Program,

Awarded amount: $33,373 ($47,675 with matching), Period: 09/2008 – 08/2009

  • Co-PI, Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts Research Cluster

Source: UNT Research Cluster, Category: Research & Education

  • PI, Cooperative Network Coding for Wireless Networks

Source: UNT Faculty Research Grant,

Awardedamount: $4,800, Period: 09/2007 – 08/2008

Honors And Awards

  • Tech Titan of the Future – University Level award ($25,000 honorarium), Metroplex TechnologyBusiness Council, August 2015.
  • Best Paper, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), New Orleans, LA, 2015
  • Third Prize for the demo of GENI over the Air, GENI, GEC 21, Indiana University, IN, October, 2014.
  • Best Use of Advanced Wireless Award for the demo of Drone-carried On-demand WiFi Networks, US Ignite, Silicon Valley, CA, June 2014
  • Leadership Fellow, the Office of the Provost, UNT, 2013-2014
  • Travel Grant for GEC 10, GEC 11, and GEC 21, GENI Project, 2011 and 2014
  • Leading advisor for the Undergraduate Research Fellowship, UNT, Project: Why does Mozart make me smile? (October 2009)
  • NSF Student Travel Grant for IEEE ISIT 2004
  • Excellent Graduate Student Award, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing (1996)
  • Outstanding Student Award, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing (1991 - 1994)

Selected Press Coverage

  • August 2015, Dallas Business Journal, Tech Titans of the Future - University: Drone-based Wi-Fi network gives vital real-time information
  • June 2015, IoT Journal, Global City Teams Challenge Expo: Looking Beyond the 'Really Cool Stuff'
  • May 2015, Homeland Security Today Magainze, Transforming on-demand emergency communications with drones, the needs, analyses, and solutions
  • May 2015, Homeland Defense & Security Information Analysis Center, Spotlight: UAVs for Disaster Area Communication
  • March 2015, UNT Research, Creating drone networks
  • November 2014, GENI, Demo-GENI Over the Air
  • November 2014, NSF, NSF Cyber-Physical Systems ​Special Report
  • August 2014, KEAR, Texas Drones Built To Save Lives
  • August 2014, UNT Insider, Flying drones carry life-saving technology
  • August 2014, UNT Engineering, UNT Drone Research
  • August 2014, AUVSI, Texas Researchers Expand Boundaries of UAS Wi-Fi
  • August 2014, US Ignite, Drone-carried On-demand WiFi Networks
  • July 2014, US Ignite Application Summit 2014 Highlight Video
  • July 2014, Scientific Computing, Drones for Disaster Relief
  • July 2014, NSF, Drones for Diaster Relief
  • July 2014, PSFK, WiFi Harnesses Could Aid Dogs In Disaster Relief Efforts
  • July 2014, UNT Engineering, Best Use of Advanced Wireless' Award
  • July 2014, textually.org, The good drone
  • July 2014, UNT Alumni, Drone research at UNT
  • June 2014, NSF Twitter, Communication after Disasters
  • June 2014, Science Magazine, Research goes to the dogs—and the drones
  • June 2014, IEEE Spectrum, On the Internet of Things
  • June 2014, UNT News, Drone research at UNT
  • June 2014, NT Daily, Drones for Disaster Relief
  • June 2014, North Texas Talk, Drones with Wi-Fi Signal
  • May 2014, NBC DFW, WiFi Broadcasding Drones
  • May 2014, Denton Record-Chronicle, Drone offers Wi-Fi signal
  • May 2014, Washington Times, Drone with Wi-Fi Signal
  • May 2014, UAS Vision, Drone with Wi-Fi Signal
  • May 2014, UNT Facebook, Drone offers Wi-Fi Signal
  • May 2014, IEEE Spectrum, Emergency Response Teams Combine Mobile Robots, Drones, and Dogs

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