Maokun LI, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Tel: +86-10-62794311
E-mail: maokunli@tsinghua.edu.cn
Education background
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2007.12)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2004.5)
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
B.S. in Electronic Engineering (2002.7)
Experience
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Associate Professor (2014.6 - present)
Schlumberger-Doll Research Centre, Cambridge, MA, USA
Senior Research Scientist II (2013.1 - 2014.5)
Senior Research Scientist I (2011.5 - 2013.1)
Research Scientist (2009.12- 2011.5)
Post-doc research scientist (2007.12- 2009.12)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Research assistant (2002.8 - 2007.12)
Intel Corporation, Chandler, AZ, USA
Intern student (2006.5 - 2006.8)
Concurrent Academic
Graduate:
Numerical Methods for Electromagnetics
Theory and Methods for Electromagnetic Inverse Problems
Undergraduate:
Data Structures and Algorithms
Social service
Member
Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Member of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES)
Member of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Member of Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)
Associate editor
Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society Journal (Since 2015)
Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society Express Journal (Since 2016)
Guest editor for special issue on “Electromagnetic Inverse Problems for Sensing and Imaging” in IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Letters
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation
Inverse Problems
Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications
Progress in Electromagnetic Research
Radio Science
Geophysics
Conference sessions
Organized a focused session “Inverse Scattering and Imaging” at the 2016 Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium in Shanghai, China, August 8-11, 2016
Organized and chaired "Robust and Efficient Electromagnetic Solutions for Large-scale Problems" session for the 2010 Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium in Cambridge, MA, USA, 5-8 July, 2010
Organized and chaired "Recent Developments in Model-based Inversion Algorithms" special session for 2011 IEEE Antennas and Propagation International Symposium in Spokane, Washington, USA, July 3-8, 2011
Technical program committee in 2016 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Ginowan, Okinawa, October 24-28, 2016
Technical program committee in 2016 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications, Chengdu, China, July 20-22, 2016.
Technical program committee for 2010 Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium in Cambridge, MA, USA, 5-8 July, 2010.
Technical reviewer for 2011~2016 IEEE Antennas and Propagation International Symposium
Technical reviewer for 2014 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference in Sandai, Japan, Nov. 4-7, 2014.
Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects
My research interest is in electromagnetic theory, especially on fast algorithms in computational electromagnetics, inverse scattering problems, and their applications to large-scale electromagnetic problems, electromagnetic compatibility analysis, geophysical explorations, biomedical imaging, and etc.
Honors And Awards
IEEE Ulrich L. Rohde Innovative Conference Paper Award (2017.3)
Yuen T. Lo Outstanding Research Award in ECE Dept., UIUC (2007.4)
E. A Reid Fellowship Award in ECE Dept., UIUC (2006.4)
Henry Ford II Scholar Award in College of Engineering (2004.5)
Excellent Graduates of Tsinghua University (2002.7)
Academic Achievement
Journal papers and conference
Co-authored 26 journal papers and over 60 conference proceedings. The papers have been cited more than 600 times (H-index=11, from Google Scholar), in which the papers on the equivalence principle algorithm were cited more than 250 times and the papers on the model-based inversion algorithm were cited more than 80 times.
Patents
1. Methods for Improving Interpretation of Time-Lapse Borehole Seismoc Data for Reservoir Monitoring Applications, L. Liang, M. Li, A. Abubakar, T. M. Habashy, H. Mankiti, I. Borodin, L. Nutt, filed as US patent, 20150205002.
2. Huygens' Box Methodology for Signal Integrity Analysis, M. K. Li, Y. Liu, J. D. Morsey, W. C. Chew, L. J. Jiang, and B. J. Rubin, 2010, US 7,707,527 B2.
