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Yi Ding

Yi Ding

Assistant Professor - Computer Science
 
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Professional Preparation

Ph.D.
University of Minnesota - 2022
M.S.
Zhejiang University - 2016
B.S.
Zhejiang University - 2013

Research Areas

Cyber-Physical Systems
Mobile Computing
Machine Learning

Publications

LLM4HAR: Generalizable On-device Human Activity Recognition with Pretrained LLMs 2025 - Conference Paper
InCo: Exploring Inter-Trip Cooperation for Efficient Last-mile Delivery 2025 - Conference Paper
Are We There Yet? A Measurement Study of Efficiency for LLM Applications on Mobile Devices 2025 - Conference Paper
Nationwide Behavior-Aware Coordinates Mining From Uncertain Delivery Events 2024 - Journal Article
CrossHAR: Generalizing Cross-dataset Human Activity Recognition via Hierarchical Self-Supervised Pretraining 2024 - Journal Article
SmallMap: Low-cost Community Road Map Sensing with Uncertain Delivery Behavior 2024 - Journal Article
Time-Constrained Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning for Concurrent Order Dispatch in On-Demand Delivery 2024 - Journal Article
Behavior-Aware Hypergraph Convolutional Network for Illegal Parking Prediction with Multi-Source Contextual Information 2024 - Conference Paper

Awards

IEEE RTSS Outstanding Paper Award - IEEE [2021]
CPS Rising Star - University of Virginia [2021]

Appointments

Assistant Professor
The University of Texas at Dallas [2023–Present]
Postdoctoral Associate
MIT [2022–2023]

Activities

Associate Editor - ACM IMWUT
Program Committee - ACM MobiSys'25
Track Chair - IEEE Cloud Summit'25
Program Committee - ACM MobiCom Picasso Workshop
Program Committee - ACM SenSys'24 Workshop on IoT Datasets for Multi-Modal Large Model
Program Committee - SIGCOMM Posters and Demos 25'24'23'

Funding

NeTS: CSR: Small: Leveraging Satellite Signals for Ubiquitous Mobile Wireless Sensing
$400,000 - NSF [2025/09–2028/08]