Borui Li

Ph.D., Assistant Professor
MSc./MEng. Supervisor

Southeast University 东南大学

Biography

Borui LI (李博睿) is currently an Assistant Professor at Southeast University, work with Prof. Shuai Wang. He is also with the Key Laboratory of Computer Network & Information Integration, Ministry of Education, China. He received his Ph.D. degree at EmNets Lab supervised by Prof. Wei Dong in the College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University. Prior to that, he received the B.E. degree from Bell Honors School, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

E-mail: libr [at] seu [dot] edu [dot] cn

Interests

LLM-powered Internet of Things
AI-native Edge Computing
MLSys for AIoT
WebAssembly and Serverless

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2017-2022

Zhejiang University
B.E. (honored) in Computer Science, 2013-2017

Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications

👐 2025届考研与2026届保研均有硕士生指标, 欢迎对边缘计算大模型/智能物联网感兴趣、动手能力强的同学报考, 有意向同学请将个人简历发到我邮箱 :) 实验室招生信息参考请见此邀请函~

🤙 同时也随时欢迎对科研有兴趣的本科生加入我们实验室进行科研训练, 实验室有成熟的科研训练机制, 欢迎联系!

💪 Let’s do something cool together!

News

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[2024-12-12] 😃 Our paper named Agent-as-a-Service: an AI-native Edge Computing Framework for 6G Networks is accepted to IEEE Network! Grateful for the valuable advice provided by Prof. Shuai Wang, as well as the dedication of my PhD students Tianen, Weilong, and Chengqing!!

[2024-11-09] 😃 Our paper named WaWoT: Towards Flexible and Efficient Web of Things Services via WebAssembly on Resource-constrained IoT Devices is accepted to IEEE Trans. on Computers! Grateful for the valuable advice provided by Prof. Wei Dong and Yi Gao, as well as the dedication of my colleague Hongchang!

[2024-09-27] 😃 Our Blue Book: Edge Computing Power (《边缘计算蓝皮书》in Chinese) is published at ICT China High Level Forum! This achievement is made possible through a collaborative effort with prestigious institutions such as CAICT and other esteemed colleagues! See this link for more details.

[2024-09-02] 😃 Our paper named BLEdge: Edge-centric programming for BLE applications with multi-connection optimization is accepted to ACM TOSN! Congrats to LI Yeming!

[2024-05-01] 😃 Our paper named SimEnc: a High-Performance Similarity Preserving Encryption Approach for Deduplication of Encrypted Docker Images is accepted to USENIX ATC 2024! Congrats to SUN Tong!

Selected Publications

Full list » DBLP entry»

[MNET'25] Agent-as-a-Service: an AI-native Edge Computing Framework for 6G Networks

Borui Li , Tianen Liu , Weilong Wang , Chengqing Zhao , Shuai Wang ^✉

[TC'25] WaWoT: Towards Flexible and Efficient Web of Things Services via WebAssembly on Resource-constrained IoT Devices

Borui Li ^✉, Hongchang Fan , Yi Gao , Wei Dong ^✉

[NSDI'23] LinkLab 2.0: A Multi-tenant Programmable IoT Testbed for Experimentation with Edge-Cloud Integration

Wei Dong ^‡, Borui Li ^‡, Haoyu Li , Hao Wu , Kaijie Gong , Wenzhao Zhang , Yi Gao

[MobiSys'22] Bringing WebAssembly to Resource-constrained IoT Devices for Seamless Device-Cloud Integration

Borui Li , Hongchang Fan , Yi Gao , Wei Dong

[TC'22] Edge-centric Programming for IoT Applications with Automatic Code Partitioning

Borui Li , Wei Dong

Academic Services

Member of Program Committee
- ACM MobiSys'23 (Artifact Evaluation), IEEE MSN'23
Member of Organizing Committee
- 25th Cross-Strait Information Technology Seminar, 2023.10
- 3rd National Conference on Intelligent Construction and Operation of Infrastructure, 2022.11
- 1st/2nd/3rd Provincial Forum of IoT Frontiers, Hangzhou/Ningbo/Hangzhou, 2017.9/2018.7/2019.7
Reviewer
- Conferences: MSN'23, IWQoS'20, MASS'22/‘20, CWSN'23/‘19, EWSN'19/‘18
- Journals: IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing (TMC), ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks (TOSN), ACM Trans. on Internet of Things (TIOT), IEEE Internet of Things Journal

Recent SEU SIGMLSys Seminar

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实验室定期组织论文阅读研讨会来分享前沿顶会论文.

We run reading groups (a.k.a, seminar) regularly to share prestige top-conference papers.

对于AIoT/AI智能体/机器学习系统感兴趣的同学欢迎参加/旁听!

All participants (if interested in AIoT, AI Agent, and MLSys) are welcome!

Students

Ph.D
- Tianen Liu (2021-now, co-advised with Prof. Shuai Wang)
- Chengqing Zhao (2021-now, co-advised with Prof. Shuai Wang)
- Weilong Wang (2023-now, co-advised with Prof. Shuai Wang)
Master
- Tiange Xia (2022-now, co-advised with Prof. Shuai Wang)
- Fanglei Shu (2023-now)
- Xingcai Zhang (2023-now)
- Bing Dong (2023-now, co-advised with Prof. Shuai Wang)
- Yitao Wang (2023-now, co-advised with Prof. Shuai Wang)
- Lili Pan (2024-now)
- Haoran Ma (2024-now)
- Hangshuai He (2024-now)
- Minyuan Feng (2024-now)
- Muhan Yuan (2024-now)

Awards

2024.02, Zhishan Young Scholar, Southeast University
2023.10, ACM China Doctoral Dissertation Award (Hangzhou Chapter), ACM China
2021.12, National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the PRC
2021.04, INFOCOM 2021 Student Conference Grant, IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc)
2021.02, Outstanding Intern, Alibaba Inc. and Alibaba-ZJU Joint Institute of Frontier Technology
2020.12, Outstanding Achievement Award for Scientific Outcomes (for project LinkLab), Zhejiang Computer Federation and ZCIA
2020.11, Outstanding PhD Candidate, Zhejiang University
2018.12, Award of Honor for Graduate, Zhejiang University
2017.06, Medal for Undergraduates, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Grants

PI, Wasm-based Serverless Computing for Cloud-Edge Integrated IoT Applications (基于Wasm的云边端协同物联网无服务器计算), The Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, No.BK20230813, 2023.9-2026.8
PI, Research on Wasm-based Cloud-Edge-IoT Collaborative Deployment and Scheduling Technologies for AIoT Applications (基于Wasm的云边端协同智能物联网任务部署与调度技术研究), NSFC Grant No.62302096, 2024.1-2026.12

Invited Talks

2022.11, Low-code Development of IoT Applications for City-scale Sensing (面向市域感知的物联网低代码开发), Invited Talks, Jiangsu Academic Symposium on City Lifelines.

Miscellaneous

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