Publications
This page summarizes my publications in two main areas: Wireless Sensing & Mobile Computing Systems and Spatial-Temporal / Mobile Data Mining. I mainly publishing on top conferences like NSDI, SIGCOMM, MobiCom, IMWUT/UbiComp, RTSS, KDD, WWW, ACM/IEEE Transactions. The authors with * are the students working primarily with me.
Sensing & Mobile AI Systems
- [FMSys'25] Are We There Yet? A Measurement Study of Efficiency for LLM Applications on Mobile Devices
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
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 - [arXiv'24] Language-centered Human Activity Recognition
Hua Yan, Heng Tan, Yi Ding, Pengfei Zhou, Vinod Namboodiri, Yu Yang
[PDF] - [IMWUT/UbiComp'24] CrossHAR: Generalizing Cross-dataset Human Activity Recognition via Hierarchical Self-Supervised Pretraining
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] - [ToN'22] Nationwide Deployment and Operation of a Virtual Arrival Detection System in the Wild
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
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
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
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
Yi Ding, Dongzhe Jiang, Yunhuai Liu, Desheng Zhang, Tian He
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
[PDF] [Code] - [KDD'22] Para-Pred: Addressing Heterogeneity for City-Wide Indoor Status Estimation in On-Demand Delivery
Wei Liu+, Yi Ding+, Shuai Wang, Yu Yang, Desheng Zhang (+ = equal contribution)
Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining195/753=26%
[PDF] - [ToN'21] From Conception to Retirement: a Lifetime Story of a 3-Year-Old Operational Wireless Beacon System in the Wild
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
Yi Ding, Yu Yang, Wenchao Jiang, Yunhuai Liu, Tian He, Desheng Zhang
Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM 2021 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
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% - [MobiCom'20] TransLoc: Transparent Indoor Localization with Uncertain Human Participation
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%
Spatial-Temporal / Mobile Data Mining
- [KDD'25] Generalizable On-device Human Activity Recognition with Pretrained LLMs for Last-mile Delivery
Zhiqing Hong, Yiwei Song, Zelong Li, Anlan Yu, Shuxin Zhong, Yi Ding, Tian He, Desheng Zhang
Proceedings of the 31th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - [WWW'25] InCo: Exploring Inter-Trip Cooperation for Efficient Last-mile Delivery
Wenjun Lyu, Shuxin Zhong, Guang Yang, Haotian Wang, Yi Ding, Shuai Wang, Yunhuai Liu, Tian He, Desheng Zhang
ACM The Web Conference 2025
[PDF] - [CIKM'24] Behavior-Aware Hypergraph Convolutional Network for Illegal Parking Prediction with Multi-Source Contextual Information
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
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
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
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
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
Zhigang Dai, Wenjun Lyu, Yi Ding, Yiwei Song, Yunhuai Liu
ACM Transactions on Sensor Network, 2023 - [SIGSPATIAL'22] CoMiner: Nationwide Behavior-driven Unsupervised Spatial Coordinate Mining from Uncertain Delivery Events
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] - [RTSS'21] Concurrent Order Dispatch for Instant Delivery with Time-Constrained Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning
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
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
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] - [IMWUT/UbiComp'19] Route Prediction for Instant Delivery
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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