Yuanchun Li

Yuanchun Li

Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University

I am currently an Assistant Professor of Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR). I received my PhD degree and Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, both from Peking University. I had also worked as a Visiting PhD Student at Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining AIR, I was a Senior Researcher in the Systems Research Group at Microsoft Research Asia.

My research interest lies in the area of Edge AI Systems/Applications. I’ve published in premier venues of mobile computing, artificial intelligence, and software engineering, including a best paper nomination in UbiComp 2016, a best paper in IS-EUD 2017, and a best paper in GreenCom 2023. Some of the papers have become popular open-source tools (DroidBot, PrivacyStreams, Humanoid, etc.) in the area.

I’m recently enthusiastic about building EdgeLLM (large language models at the edge) and MobileAgent (intelligent personal agents on mobile devices) powered by EdgeLLM. Check out our position & survey paper.

Our team is recruiting PostDocs, research engineers, and interns. Please feel free to contact me if you are interested.

Recent News

  • 📢 2024/12 – Paper accepted to (MobiCom 2025): “LLM-Explorer: Towards Efficient and Affordable LLM-based Exploration for Mobile Apps”. Congratulations Shanhui Zhao and Hao Wen !
  • 📢 2024/09 – Paper accepted to IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC): “ADAWIFI, Collaborative WiFi Sensing for Cross-Environment Adaptation”. Congratulations Naiyu Zheng !
  • 📢 2024/08 – Happy to receive the Rising Star Award of ACM SIGBED China!
  • 📢 2024/07 – Paper accepted to NSDI 2025: “Region-based Content Enhancement for Efficient Video Analytics at the Edge”. Congratulations to Weijun Wang and Liang Mi !
  • 📢 2024/07 – Paper accepted to UIST 2024: “LlamaTouch: A Faithful and Scalable Testbed for Mobile UI Automation Task Evaluation”. Congratulations to Li Zhang and other awesome collaborators at BUPT ! We also released a large-scale mobile GUI dataset MobileViews.
  • 📢 2024/06 – In collaboration with Huawei, we published the white paper on AI Phone (in Chinese).
  • 📢 2024/06 – Successfully hosted the 1st workshop on edge foundation models (EdgeFM 2024) in Tokyo! See you next year!
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Summary of My Research