Shuyang Li

Shuyang Li is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division (CEMSE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), working with Professor Mohamed-Slim Alouini in the Communication Theory Lab (CTL).

Education and Early Career

Shuyang Li received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in Software Engineering from Ma’anshan University and Lanzhou Jiaotong University, China, in 2019 and 2022, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in Software Engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing, China, in 2026, under the supervision of Professor Qiang Wu of Zhejiang University and Professor Ran Wang of NUAA. To date, he has published several papers as first or co-first author in leading IEEE/ACM journals and conferences. He presented his research at IEEE WCNC 2025 in Milan, Italy, and received a Silver Medal at the 51st International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva in 2026. He also serves as a reviewer for leading journals in computer networking and communications, including IEEE/ACM ToN, IEEE TMC, IEEE TCOM, and IEEE TWC.

Research Interests

Shuyang Li’s research interests span non-terrestrial networks, AI-enabled networking, and intelligent optimization, with a current focus on high-altitude platform station (HAPS) networks. He develops AI-driven methods for network control and resource management to enable resilient and sustainable HAPS-centric space–air–ground integrated networks. In parallel, he investigates how non-terrestrial networks can provide distributed computing resources to support large-model inference and training.

Education Profile

• Ph.D. in Software Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China (September 2022 – June 2026)
• M.E. in Software Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou, China (September 2019 – June 2022)
• B.E. in Software Engineering, Ma’anshan University, Ma’anshan, China (September 2015 – June 2019)

Awards and Distinctions

• Silver Medal at the 51st International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva, Swiss Federal Government, 2026
• National Scholarship for Doctoral Students, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, 2025
• National Scholarship for Master’s Students, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, 2021
• National Scholarship for Undergraduate Students, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, 2018