About Me
Welcome! My name is Xinyi Li. I am currently a second year PhD candidate at Stevens Institute of Technology. My advisor is Prof. Ying Wang. I received my Master degree from Duke University in 2024.
Research Interest 
Neutral-Atom Systems
Hardware-aware compilation, pulse scheduling, atom movement, and resource management.
Quantum Error Correction & Security
Atom-loss modeling, decoder vulnerabilities, and fault-tolerant defenses.
Quantum Cloud Systems
Multi-tenant virtual QPUs, compilation caching, scheduling, and resource sharing.
Quantum Algorithms & ML
Variational algorithms, QAOA/VQE, hybrid learning, and noise-aware optimization
News !!! 
2026
Three papers accepted at IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE-26), Jul 21, 2026!
Two papers accepted at IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD’26), Jul 11, 2026!
2025
One paper accepted at The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025), Sep 18, 2025!
One paper accepted at IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (TAES), Aug 24, 2025!
Two papers accepted at IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE-25), Jul 21, 2025!
Two papers accepted at IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE-25), Jul 8, 2025!
Passed the qualify exam, I am a PhD Candidate now, Mar 12, 2025!
One paper accepted at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC-25), Jan 17, 2025!
2024
One paper accepted at The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-25), Dec 9, 2024!
One Paper Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering, Oct 10, 2024!
One Paper Accepted by IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, Oct 1, 2024!
Two Papers Accepted by IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE-24), Aug 23, 2024!
Joint Stevens Institute of Technology as a PhD student, Sep 2024!
Graduated from Duke University, May 2024!
One Paper Accepted by IEEE 21st Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Jan 1, 2024
2023
One Paper Accepted by IEEE Access, Oct 20, 2023
Joint Stevens Institute of Technology as a Summer Research Intern, Jul 2023