🎉 We have open-sourced Embodied.cpp, a portable C++ inference runtime for embodied AI models on heterogeneous robots and edge devices. Code, models, and preprint are now available!
Borui Li
Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Southeast University
Biography
Borui Li is currently an Assistant Professor at Southeast University and works with Prof. Shuai Wang. He leads the Physical AI System (🥧PAISys) group in SAIL lab. He is also with the Key Laboratory of Computer Network & Information Integration, Ministry of Education, China. He received his Ph.D. degree from the College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, where he worked in the Emerging Networked Systems (EmNets) research group under the supervision of Prof. Wei Dong. 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
- Embodied AI System and its Continual Evolution
- AI Infra for On-device and Edge Computing Agents
Education
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Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2017-2022
Zhejiang University
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B.E. with honors in Computer Science, 2013-2017
Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Join Us
We have openings for Master’s, direct Ph.D., and doctoral applicants entering in 2027. We also welcome undergraduates who are ready to make a sustained commitment to research in embodied AI systems, AI infrastructure, and edge intelligence.
Research
Continual Embodied Intelligence
We build embodied agents that accumulate experience, form structured long-term memory, reflect on past interactions, and improve their policies over time without forgetting previously acquired capabilities.
Representative projects
DigimonGPTFaaSLearner
Efficient AI Hardware & Systems
We build portable inference, adaptation, and resource-management infrastructure that runs AI models efficiently across CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, robots, and heterogeneous edge devices.
Representative projects
Embodied.cppMobiLoRAFluidEdgeMUSched
News
😃 Our paper about Video Analytics and Continual Learning is accepted to IEEE TMC! Congratulations to Tianen!
😃 Our paper named Surviving the Impossible Trinity: Revisiting CPU Scheduling Problem on Modern COTS Mobile Devices is accepted to USENIX OSDI 2026! We made our first breakthrough in the top conference of the systems field and we look forward more! Many thanks to all collaborators!
😃 Our paper named InfSquad: SLO-aware Serverless Machine Learning Inference with Wasm-assisted Hybrid Functions is accepted to IEEE TSC! Congratulations to Weilong!
😃 Our paper about Agent Evolution is accepted to AAAI 2026! Congratulations to Xingcai and Tianen!
Selected Publications
Recent SEU SIGMLSys Seminar
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.
对于具身智能/AI Infra/AI智能体感兴趣的同学欢迎参加/旁听!
All participants (if interested in Embodied AI, AI Infra, AI Agent) are welcome!
“The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy. And yet, if they’d not had these crazy ideas, the world would have been more stupid.” – Arsene Wenger on being a trailblazer