Yuning Chen
Research Scientist at Meta
Ph.D. at University of California, Merced

Contacts:

Email: ychen372 [at] ucmerced.edu


I'm a machine learning research scientist in Meta. I obtained my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Merced, advised by Prof. Wan Du. Prior to UC Merced, I received my B.E. in Software Engineering from Tsinghua University.


What's New

July 2025
I was invited to serve as an Area Chair in KDD 2026.
May 2025
SoilX was awarded the Best Demo Award in SenSys 2025.
May 2025
I passed my Ph.D. dissertation defense!
April 2025
MP2 was accepted to ATC 2025.
January 2025
I was invited to serve as an Area Chair in KDD 2025.
May 2024
MARLP was accepted to KDD 2024.
April 2024
OrchLoc was accepted to MobiSys 2024.
Feburary 2024
CloudEval-YAML was accepted to MLSys 2024.
October 2023
CloudEval-YAML was accepted to Workshop on ML for Systems at NeurIPS 2023.

Professional Experiences

Meta 

Research Scientist, Meta
May. 2025 - Present, Bellevue, WA

ByteDance 

Software Engineer Intern, ByteDance
May. 2024 - Aug. 2024, San Jose, CA

Alibaba Cloud 

Research Intern, Alibaba Cloud U.S.
May. 2023 - Aug. 2023, Sunnyvale, CA


Publications (*: co-primary authors)

Full papers

Workshops, Posters and Demos


Services

  • Conference Area Chair: KDD'25-26.
  • Conference Reviewer: NeurIPS'24-25, ICML'25, ICLR'25, KDD'25, AISTATS'25, MM'25, CIKM'24 TRAI, SenSys'23 Poster & Demo.
  • Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (TIOT), IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ).
  • Artifact Evaluation Committee: MobiCom'24-25, MobiSys'24.