Zexin Li

zexin [dot] li [at] ntu [dot] edu [dot] sg

I received a Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Riverside (UCR) under the advice of Dr. Cong Liu . I received a bachelor’s degree from the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) under the advice of Dr. Yuqun Zhang in July 2020. My research interests lie in interdisciplinary fields of real-time embedded systems and on-device machine learning.

I am actively looking for cooperation in the following topics: (1) deploying machine learning models on real-time embedded devices, (2) system-application co-optimization of machine learning systems, and (3) improving performance robustness in machine learning systems.

I am an incoming postdoctoral research fellow at Nanyang Technological University (NTU).

Feel free to contact me if we share common research interests.

Download my Curriculum Vitae .

News

07/2026 - One paper is accepted by RTSS'26 .
05/2026 - I’m excited to share that I’ve successfully defended my Ph.D. at University of California, Riverside , with my dissertation “Towards Deployable On-Device Machine Learning Systems”. Committee members: Dr. Cong Liu , Dr. Hyoseung Kim, and Dr. Jun Sheng.
03/2026 - One paper is accepted by TMLR .
01/2026 - Honored to receive the Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award (DCFA), UCR .
12/2025 - Our RTSS'25 paper received Outstanding Paper Award.
07/2025 - One paper is accepted by RTSS'25 .
07/2024 - Two papers are accepted by RTSS'24 .
07/2023 - Three papers are accepted by RTSS'23 .

02/2023 - 08/2026 - Multiple papers are accepted by IROS'23, ACL'23, CVPR'23, EMNLP'25, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, FSE'24, AAAI'26, ACL'26, ECCV'26, and ICCD'26.

11/2025 - One paper is accepted by AAAI'26 .
04/2026 - Two papers are accepted by ACL'26 .
06/2026 - One paper is accepted by ECCV'26 .
08/2026 - One paper is accepted by ICCD'26 .
08/2025 - Two papers are accepted by EMNLP'25 .
08/2024 - One paper is accepted by IEEE Signal Processing Letters .
04/2024 - One paper is accepted by FSE'24 .
06/2023 - One paper is accepted by IROS'23 .
05/2023 - Two papers are accepted by ACL'23 .
02/2023 - One paper is accepted by CVPR'23 .

09/2022 - Honored to receive the Dean's Distinguished Fellowship, UCR.
09/2022 - Join UCRiverside and Dr. Cong Liu 's Autonomous Embedded Systems Lab in 2022 Fall.
01/2022 - Join UTDallas and Dr. Cong Liu 's Real-Time System Lab in 2022 Spring.
05/2021 - Begin the research intern in Tecent Youtu Lab , Shanghai, China; Admitted into Tencent Rhino Bird Elite Talent Training Program .
03/2021 - One paper is accepted by JSA , great thanks to Dr. Yuqun Zhang .
10/2019 - Begin the research intern in Kuaishou , Shenzhen, China.