Li Zhang
I'm a fourth-year Ph.D. student (expected to graduate in Sep. 2025) at School of Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), advised by Prof. Mengwei Xu. I received my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Sichuan University in 2019.

My research interests lie in system/software optimization to power emerging mobile/edge applications. I am currently working on building efficient and effective mobile GUI agents.
Here is my CV.
Email: li DOT zhang AT bupt DOT edu DOT cn
[Preprint] UIShift: Enhancing VLM-based GUI Agents through Self-supervised Reinforcement Learning
Longxi Gao, Li Zhang, Mengwei Xu
[Preprint] Does Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Help Mobile GUI Agent? An Empirical Study
Li Zhang*, Longxi Gao*, Mengwei Xu
[Preprint] MobileViews: A Large-Scale Mobile GUI Dataset
Longxi Gao*, Li Zhang*, Shihe Wang, Shangguang Wang, Yuanchun Li, Mengwei Xu
[UIST'24] LlamaTouch: A Faithful and Scalable Testbed for Mobile UI Task Automation
Li Zhang, Shihe Wang, Xianqing Jia, Zhihan Zheng, Yunhe Yan, Longxi Gao, Yuanchun Li, Mengwei Xu
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'24), October 13-16, 2024, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
[USENIX ATC'24] More is Different: Prototyping and Analyzing a New Form of Edge Server with Massive Mobile SoCs
Li Zhang, Zhe Fu, Boqing Shi, Xiang Li, Rujin Lai, Chenyang Yang, Ao Zhou, Xiao Ma, Shangguang Wang, Mengwei Xu
2024 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC'24), July 10-12, 2024, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
[USENIX ATC'24] High-density Mobile Cloud Gaming on Edge SoC Clusters
Li Zhang, Shangguang Wang, Mengwei Xu
2024 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC'24), July 10-12, 2024, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
[IMC'21] From Cloud to Edge: A First Look at Public Edge Platforms
Mengwei Xu, Zhe Fu, Xiao Ma, Li Zhang, Yanan Li, Feng Qian, Shangguang Wang, Ke Li, Jingyu Yang, Xuanzhe Liu
ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'21), November 2-4, 2021, Virtual Event.