#  Projects and Honors  

 



##  **Current Projects:**

- NSF: **[NSF AI institute in Dynamical Systems](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2112085&HistoricalAwards=false)**
- NSF: [CPS: Medium: An AI-enabled Cyber-Physical-Biological System for Cardiac Organoid Maturation](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2038603&HistoricalAwards=false)
- NSF: [Collaborative Research: MLWiNS: Distributed Learning over Multi-Access Channels: From Bandlimited Coordinate Descent to Gradient Sketching](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2003111&HistoricalAwards=false)
- ONR Young Investigator Award: Real-time Distributed Coordination of Multi-Agent Systems Under Limited Communication.

##  **Awards:**

- [**The Manfred Thoma Medal** ](https://www.ifac-control.org/awards/major-awards)by IFAC, 2023
- Outstanding student paper award in 2021 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, as an adviser
- **[Capers W. McDonald and Marion K. McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising](https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2020/05/na-li-receives-mcdonald-mentoring-award), 2020**
- **[Donald P. Eckman Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_P._Eckman_Award), 2019**
- **ONR Young Investigator Award**, 2019.
- Best student paper award finalist in 2018 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), as an adviser.
- Harvard Physical Sciences and Engineering Accelerator Award, 2018.
- Harvard Climate Change Solutions Fund Award, 2018.
- **AFOSR Young Investigator Award**, 2017
- **NSF Career Award**, 2016
- One of the 2 nominees of Harvard University for **Packard Fellowships** for Science and Engineering 2015
- **Best Student Paper Award Finalist** in 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Dec. 2011

##  **Past Projects:**

- PI, NSF CAREER: Optimization, Control, and Incentive Design for Power Networks with High Levels of Distributed Energy Resources
- PI, NSF: Eager: Real-Time: Learning, Selection, and Control in Residential Demand Response for Grid Reliability, 10/01/2018-09/30/2020 (coPI: David Parkes; Senior Personnel: Jun Shimada, Founder & CTO of ThinkEco Inc.)
- PI, AFOSR Young Investigator Award: Distributed Coordination in Multi-Agent Networked Systems: Algorithms and Fundamental Limits, 12/15/2017-12/14/2020.
- PI, Harvard Climate Change Solutions Fund Award: Identifying the challenges and technical pathways toward a reliable carbon-free energy system in the United States, 01/15/2018- 01/14/2020.
- PI, Harvard Physical Sciences and Engineering Accelerator Award: Singularity: AI-Powered Distributed Energy Networks, 02/01/2018-01/31/2019.
- PI, NSF Collaborative Research: Towards Communication-Cognizant Voltage Regulation and Energy Management for Power Distribution Systems, 08/01/1016-07/31/2019.
- PI(Subcontractor), ARPA-E NODES: Real-time optimization and control of next-generation, 08/01/2016- 07/31/2019. (Leading PI: National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
- PI, Guodian Nanjing Automation Co., Ltd: Optimal Bidding Strategy and Assets Allocation Plan for Generation Companies, 04/01/2016-03/31/2018.
- co-PI, NSF Eager: Limited Communications Demand Control in the Power Grid, 08/15/2015-12/31/2017.
- PI, Lincoln Laboratory, Optimization of Distributed Space Systems, 09/01/2014-08/31/2015.