Yuning Chen
Meta

Contacts:

Email: ychen372 [at] ucmerced.edu

I'm a research scientist at Meta, working on building long-horizon agents, with a focus on agentic post-training, verifiable reward learning, test-time scaling, and self-evolving agent systems.

I obtained my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2025) at the University of California, Merced, advised by Prof. Wan Du. I received my B.E. in Software Engineering (2021) from Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Mingsheng Long.

What's New

May 2026
SoilX (sample-efficient contrastive pretraining) received the Best Paper award at SenSys 2026.
Feb 2026
GRaF (generalizable neural radiance fields) was accepted to CVPR 2026.
Dec 2025
AnyPro (anycast network config optimization) was accepted to NSDI 2026. See you in Renton!
Oct 2025
Serving in the Program Committee of MLSys 2026 in agentic system domain.
Oct 2025
I was selected as a Top Reviewer for NeurIPS 2025 and awarded a complementary registration. :)
Jul 2025
I was invited to serve as an Area Chair in KDD 2026.
May 2025
I passed my Ph.D. dissertation defense and start full-time working at Meta.
May 2024
MARLP (predictive control with causal + Transformer) was accepted to KDD 2024.
Feb 2024
CloudEval-YAML (eval system for LLM cloud config generation) was accepted to MLSys 2024.

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 Program Committee / Reviewer: MLSys'26, NeurIPS'24-25 (Top Reviewer), ICLR'25-26, ICML'25, KDD'25-26, AISTATS'25-26, AAAI'26, MM'25-26, CIKM'24 TRAI, SenSys'23 Poster & Demo.
  • Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN) (Distinguished Reviewer Board), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 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.