Publications
This page summarizes my publications in wireless sensing & mobile computing systems, AI for sensing & mobile systems, mobile data mining, and embodied AI. I mainly publish at top conferences like NSDI, SIGCOMM, MobiCom, IMWUT/UbiComp, RTSS, KDD, WWW, and ACM/IEEE Transactions. Authors with * are students working primarily with me.
Sensing & Mobile SystemsBuilding and deploying sensing/mobile systems where AI is not a primary contribution.
Sensing & Mobile Systems with AISystems where AI is an integral component, with system design as the primary contribution.
AI for Sensing & Mobile SystemsNovel AI/ML model or algorithm for sensing, perception, or mobile computing.
Mobile Data MiningData-driven analysis, prediction, and knowledge discovery from large-scale mobile and spatial-temporal datasets.
Embodied AIAutonomous systems that sense and act in the physical world, including UAVs and robotic platforms.
- [arXiv'26] WM-DAgger: Enabling Efficient Data Aggregation for Imitation Learning with World Models
Embodied AI
Anlan Yu*, Zaishu Chen, Peili Song, Zhiqing Hong, Haotian Wang, Desheng Zhang, Tian He, Yi Ding, Daqing Zhang
arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.11351, 2026
[arXiv] - [WWW'26] Predictability-Aware Compression and Decompression Framework for Multichannel Time Series Data
AI for Sensing & Mobile Systems
Ziqi Liu*, Pei Zeng*, Yi Ding
Proceedings of the ACM on the Web Conference 2026
[PDF] - [IMWUT'25/UbiComp'26] Large Language Model-Guided Semantic Alignment for Human Activity Recognition
AI for Sensing & Mobile Systems
Hua Yan, Heng Tan, Yi Ding, Pengfei Zhou, Vinod Namboodiri, Yu Yang
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2025
[PDF] - [MobiCom'25] Experience Paper: Nationwide Human Behavior Sensing in Last-mile Delivery
Sensing & Mobile Systems with AI
Zhiqing Hong, Weibing Wang, Anlan Yu, Shuxin Zhong, Haotian Wang, Yi Ding, Tian He, Desheng Zhang
Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking
[PDF] - [MobiCom'25] Auto-UIT: Automated UAV Inspection Trajectory Generation from Noisy Sparse 3D Point Cloud
Embodied AI
Feng Lyu, Lijuan He, Mingliu Liu, Sijing Duan, Hao Wu, Jieyu Zhou, Yi Ding, Zaixun Ling, Yibo Cui
Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking
[PDF] - [FMSys'25] Are We There Yet? A Measurement Study of Efficiency for LLM Applications on Mobile Devices
Sensing & Mobile Systems with AI
Xiao Yan*, Yi Ding
The 2nd International Workshop on Foundation Models for Cyber-Physical Systems & Internet of Things
[PDF] - [PerCom'25] FineSat: Enhancing GNSS Signals for High-precision Sensing
Sensing & Mobile Systems
Anlan Yu*, Xuanzhi Wang, Pei Wang, Jinkun Li, Xujun Ma, Zhiqing Hong, Haotian Wang, Yi Ding, Daqing Zhang
2025 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications - [TMC'25] Exploring Cellular User Re-Identification Risks with Networking Behaviors Analysis and Modeling
Mobile Data Mining
Sijing Duan, Feng Lyu, Shanshan Wang, Yi Ding, Xiaohao He, Yaoxue Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2025 - [CIKM'25] Fraudulent Delivery Detection with Multimodal Courier Behavior Data in Last-Mile Delivery
Mobile Data Mining
Shanshan Wang*, Sijing Duan, Shuxin Zhong, Zhiqing Hong, Zhiyuan Zhou, Hongyu Lin, Weijian Zuo, Desheng Zhang, Yi Ding
34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
[PDF] - [KDD'25] LLM4HAR: Generalizable On-device Human Activity Recognition with Pretrained LLMs
AI for Sensing & Mobile Systems
Zhiqing Hong, Yiwei Song, Zelong Li, Anlan Yu, Shuxin Zhong, Yi Ding, Tian He, Desheng Zhang
Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
[PDF] - [WWW'25] InCo: Exploring Inter-Trip Cooperation for Efficient Last-mile Delivery
Mobile Data Mining
Wenjun Lyu, Shuxin Zhong, Guang Yang, Haotian Wang, Yi Ding, Shuai Wang, Yunhuai Liu, Tian He, Desheng Zhang
Proceedings of the ACM on the Web Conference 2025
[PDF] - [IMWUT/UbiComp'24] CrossHAR: Generalizing Cross-dataset Human Activity Recognition via Hierarchical Self-Supervised Pretraining
AI for Sensing & Mobile Systems
Zhiqing Hong, Zelong Li, Shuxin Zhong, Wenjun Lyu, Haotian Wang, Yi Ding, Tian He, Desheng Zhang
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
[PDF] - [CIKM'24] Behavior-Aware Hypergraph Convolutional Network for Illegal Parking Prediction with Multi-Source Contextual Information
Mobile Data Mining
Guang Yang*, Meiqi Tu, Zelong Li, Jinquan Hang, Taichi Liu, Ruofeng Liu, Yi Ding, Yu Yang, Desheng Zhang
33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
[PDF] - [TKDE'24] Nationwide Behavior-Aware Coordinates Mining from Uncertain Delivery Events
Mobile Data Mining
Zhiqing Hong, Guang Wang, Wenjun Lyu, Baoshen Guo, Yi Ding, Haotian Wang, Shuai Wang, Yunhuai Liu, Desheng Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
[PDF] - [IMWUT/UbiComp'24] SmallMap: Low-cost Community Road Map Sensing with Uncertain Delivery Behavior
Mobile Data Mining
Zhiqing Hong, Haotian Wang, Yi Ding, Guang Wang, Tian He, Desheng Zhang
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
[PDF] - [VLDB'23] VeLP: Vehicle Loading Plan Learning from Human Behavior in Nationwide Logistics System
Mobile Data Mining
Sijing Duan, Feng Lyu, Xin Zhu, Yi Ding, Haotian Wang, Desheng Zhang, Xue Liu, Yaoxue Zhang, Ju Ren
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
[PDF] - [TMC'23] Time-Constrained Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning for Concurrent Order Dispatch in On-demand Delivery
Mobile Data Mining
Shuai Wang, Baoshen Guo, Yi Ding, Guang Wang, Suining He, Desheng Zhang, Tian He
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2023 - [ToSN'23] OPTI: Order Preparation Time Inference for On-demand Delivery
Mobile Data Mining
Zhigang Dai, Wenjun Lyu, Yi Ding, Yiwei Song, Yunhuai Liu
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 2023 - [ToN'22] Nationwide Deployment and Operation of a Virtual Arrival Detection System in the Wild
Sensing & Mobile Systems
Yi Ding, Yu Yang, Wenchao Jiang, Yunhuai Liu, Tian He, Desheng Zhang
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2022 - [MobiCom'22] Experience: Adopting Indoor Outdoor Detection in On-demand Food Delivery Business
Sensing & Mobile Systems
Pengfei Zhou, Yi Ding, Yang Li, Mo Li, Guobin Shen, Tian He
Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking
[PDF] - [IMWUT/UbiComp'22] WePos: Weak-supervised Indoor Positioning with Unlabeled WiFi for On-demand Delivery
Sensing & Mobile Systems with AI
Baoshen Guo, Weijian Zuo, Shuai Wang, Wenjun Lyu, Zhiqing Hong, Yi Ding, Tian He, Desheng Zhang
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
[PDF] - [IMWUT/UbiComp'22] P2-Loc: A Person-2-Person Indoor Localization System in On-Demand Delivery
Sensing & Mobile Systems with AI
Yi Ding, Dongzhe Jiang, Yu Yang, Yunhuai Liu, Tian He, Desheng Zhang
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
[PDF] [Dataset] [Code] - [IMWUT/UbiComp'22] SmartLOC: Indoor Localization with Smartphone Anchors for On-Demand Delivery
Sensing & Mobile Systems with AI
Yi Ding, Dongzhe Jiang, Yunhuai Liu, Desheng Zhang, Tian He
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
[PDF] [Code] - [SIGSPATIAL'22] CoMiner: Nationwide Behavior-driven Unsupervised Spatial Coordinate Mining from Uncertain Delivery Events
Mobile Data Mining
Zhiqing Hong, Guang Wang, Wenjun Lyu, Baoshen Guo, Yi Ding, Haotian Wang, Shuai Wang, Yunhuai Liu, Desheng Zhang
Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
[PDF] - [KDD'22] Para-Pred: Addressing Heterogeneity for City-Wide Indoor Status Estimation in On-Demand Delivery
AI for Sensing & Mobile Systems
Wei Liu+, Yi Ding+, Shuai Wang, Yu Yang, Desheng Zhang (+ = equal contribution)
Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
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[PDF] - [ToN'21] From Conception to Retirement: a Lifetime Story of a 3-Year-Old Operational Wireless Beacon System in the Wild
Sensing & Mobile Systems
Yi Ding, Ling Liu, Yu Yang, Yunhuai Liu, Desheng Zhang, Tian He
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2021 - [SIGCOMM'21] Nationwide Deployment and Operation of a Virtual Arrival Detection System in the Wild
Sensing & Mobile Systems
Yi Ding, Yu Yang, Wenchao Jiang, Yunhuai Liu, Tian He, Desheng Zhang
Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM Conference
[PDF] [Dataset] 55/241=23% - [NSDI'21] From Conception to Retirement: a Lifetime Story of a 3-Year-Old Operational Wireless Beacon System in the Wild
Sensing & Mobile Systems
Yi Ding, Ling Liu, Yu Yang, Yunhuai Liu, Tian He, Desheng Zhang
Proceedings of the 18th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
[PDF] [Dataset] [Video] 19/114=16% - [RTSS'21] Concurrent Order Dispatch for Instant Delivery with Time-Constrained Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning
Sensing & Mobile Systems with AI
Baoshen Guo, Shuai Wang, Yi Ding, Guang Wang, Suining He, Desheng Zhang, Tian He
2021 IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS)
[PDF] Outstanding Paper Award - [IMWUT/UbiComp'21] ALWAES: an Automatic Outdoor Location-Aware Correction System for Online Delivery Platforms
Mobile Data Mining
Dongzhe Jiang, Yi Ding, Hao Zhang, Yunhuai Liu, Tian He, Yu Yang, Desheng Zhang
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
[PDF] [Dataset] - [IMWUT/UbiComp'21] A City-Wide Crowdsourcing Delivery System with Reinforcement Learning
Mobile Data Mining
Yi Ding, Baoshen Guo, Lin Zheng, Mingming Lu, Desheng Zhang, Shuai Wang, Sang Hyuk Son, Tian He
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
[PDF] [Dataset] - [MobiCom'20] TransLoc: Transparent Indoor Localization with Uncertain Human Participation
Sensing & Mobile Systems
Yu Yang, Yi Ding, Dengpan Yuan, Guang Wang, Xiaoyang Xie, Yunhuai Liu, Tian He, Desheng Zhang
Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
[PDF] 63/384=16% - [IMWUT/UbiComp'19] Route Prediction for Instant Delivery
Mobile Data Mining
Yan Zhang, Yunhuai Liu, Yi Ding, Genjian Li, Ning Chen, Hao Zhang, Tian He, Desheng Zhang
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
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