Yunzhe Li

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin

Email: yunzhe.li.cs@outlook.com
Research Interest: Edge AI, Mobile Computing, AIoT

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Biography

Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), advised by Prof. Lili Qiu. I received my Ph.D. degree in 2026 from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU, China), where I was advised by Prof. Hongzi Zhu and Prof. Lili Qiu. I was a member of the Advanced Computing Institute at the School of Computer Science, SJTU, led by Prof. Minyi Guo. I received my B.S. degree from Wuhan University in 2021. My research work focuses on Mobile Computing, Mobile Sensing and Internet of Things.

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News

• [2026] Recent papers appear in NDSS, IEEE TDSC, and IEEE TMC.
• [2025/10] "BlinkBud" is accepted by Ubicomp/IMWUT 2026.
• [2025/5] One paper is accepted by IEEE TMC.
• [2024/12] "Prism" is accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2025.

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Selected Publications

For a complete list, please see Google Scholar.

2026

• [TDSC 2026] On the Availability Risks of Production LLM Services under Unbounded Inference
  Yunzhe Li, Jianan Wang, Hongzi Zhu, James Lin, Shan Chang and Minyi Guo
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

• [TMC 2026] Online Edge-Assisted Video Analytics on Mobile Agents via Differential Video Encoding
  Hongzi Zhu, Jiangang Shen, Liang Zhang, Yunzhe Li, Shan Chang, J. Wu and Minyi Guo
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

• [NDSS 2026] ThinkTrap: Denial-of-Service Attacks against Black-box LLM Services via Infinite Thinking
  Yunzhe Li, Jianan Wang, Hongzi Zhu, James Lin, Shan Chang and Minyi Guo
  Network and Distributed System Security Symposium

• [Ubicomp/IMWUT 2026] BlinkBud: Detecting Hazards from Behind via Sampled Monocular 3D Detection on a Single Earbud
  Yunzhe Li, Jiajun Yan, Yuzhou Wei, Kechen Liu, Yize Zhao, Chong Zhang, Hongzi Zhu, Li Lu, Shan Chang and Minyi Guo
  Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies / ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

2025

• [TMC 2025] A Scene-Aware Model Adaptation Scheme for Cross-Scene Online Inference on Mobile Devices
  Yunzhe Li, Hongzi Zhu, Zhuohong Deng, Yunlong Cheng, Zimu Zheng, Liang Zhang, Shan Chang and Minyi Guo
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

• [INFOCOM 2025] Prism: Mining Task-aware Domains in Non-i.i.d. IMU Data for Flexible User Perception
  Yunzhe Li, Facheng Hu, Hongzi Zhu, Quan Liu, Xiaoke Zhao, Jiangang Shen, Shan Chang and Minyi Guo
  IEEE Conference on Computer Communications

• [ICDCS 2025] Saga: Capturing Multi-granularity Semantics from Massive Unlabelled IMU Data for User Perception
  Yunzhe Li, Facheng Hu, Hongzi Zhu, Shifan Zhang, Liang Zhang, Shan Chang and Minyi Guo
  IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

• [ICDCS 2025] CoPe: Taming Collaborative 3D Perception via Lite Network Attention across Mobile Agents Distinguished Paper
  Shifan Zhang, Hongzi Zhu, Yunzhe Li, Liang Zhang, Shan Chang and Minyi Guo
  IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

• [TPAMI 2025] Exploiting Ground Depth Estimation for Mobile Monocular 3D Object Detection
  Yunsong Zhou, Quan Liu, Hongzi Zhu, Yunzhe Li, Shan Chang and Minyi Guo
  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

• [PPoPP 2025] SGDRC: Software-Defined Dynamic Resource Control for Concurrent DNN Inference on NVIDIA GPUs
  Yongkang Zhang, Haoxuan Yu, Chenxia Han, Cheng Wang, Baotong Lu, Yunzhe Li, Zhifeng Jiang, Yang Li, Xiaowen Chu and Huaicheng Li
  ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming

2024

• [ICDCS 2024] Anole: Adapting Diverse Compressed Models for Cross-scene Prediction on Mobile Devices
  Yunzhe Li, Hongzi Zhu, Zhuohong Deng, Yunlong Cheng, Liang Zhang, Shan Chang and Minyi Guo
  IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

• [TC 2024] Novas: Tackling Online Dynamic Video Analytics with Service Adaptation at Mobile Edge Servers
  Liang Zhang, Hongzi Zhu, Wen Fei, Yunzhe Li, Mingjin Zhang, Jiannong Cao and Minyi Guo
  IEEE Transactions on Computers

2022

• [NeurIPS 2022] MoGDE: Boosting Mobile Monocular 3D Object Detection with Ground Depth Estimation
  Yunsong Zhou, Quan Liu, Hongzi Zhu, Yunzhe Li, Shan Chang and Minyi Guo
  Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems

2020

• [TMC 2020] SmartSO: Chinese Character and Stroke Order Recognition With Smartwatch
  Jian Zhang, Hongliang Bi, Yanjiao Chen, Qian Zhang, Zhaoyuan Fu, Yunzhe Li and Zeyu Li
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

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Awards

• Shanghai Outstanding Graduate, 2026
• ICDCS Distinguished Paper Award, 2025
• KubeEdge Rising Star Award, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, 2023
• Nomination Award for Excellent Teaching Assistant, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2022
• Outstanding Graduates of Hongyi Honor College, Wuhan University, 2021

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Services

• Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
• Teaching Assistant: CS2307 Computer Organization, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024.