Chenning Li

Research Assistant

Networks and Mobile Systems group at CSAIL

EECS Department

lichenni [at] mit [dot] edu

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Biography

He is a Ph.D. student in the Networks and Mobile Systems group at CSAIL, EECS, MIT, working with Prof. Hari Balakrishnan and Prof. Mohammad Alizadeh.

Current Status

I am actively looking for an internship for the summer of 2025. My interests include research projects on ML for networks and systems for ML.

I am open to any kind of research collaborations. Please feel free to reach out if you are interested in collaborating on projects related to my research interests.

Research Interests

My research focuses on applying machine learning to enhance networking, networked systems, and edge/mobile computing. I develop ML-driven solutions like m3, ACM SIGCOMM 2024 for flow-level performance estimation in large-scale data center networks, CurvingLoRa, USENIX NSDI 2022 for boosting throughput in long-range wireless networks, PyramidFL, ACM MobiCom 2022 for efficient federated learning in mobile computing, and NELoRa, ACM SenSys 2021 for ultra-low SNR communication in long-range wireless networks.

Selected Publications

Conference Publications

[ACM SIGCOMM'24] Chenning Li*, Arash Nasr-Esfahany*, Kevin Zhao, Kimia Noorbakhsh, Prateesh Goyal, Mohammad Alizadeh, and Thomas Anderson. "m3: Accurate Flow-Level Performance Estimation using Machine Learning". Slides Code Video Poster
[ACM MobiSys'24] Chenning Li*, Yidong Ren*, Shuai Tong, Shakhrul Iman Siam, Mi Zhang, Yunhao Liu, Jiliang Wang, and Zhichao Cao. "ChirpTransformer: Versatile LoRa Encoding for Low- power Wide-area IoT". Code
[USENIX NSDI'22] Chenning Li, Xiuzhen Guo, Longfei Shangguan, Zhichao Cao, Kyle Jamieson. "CurvingLoRa to Boost LoRa Network Throughput via Concurrent Transmission". Slides Code Video
[ACM MobiCom'22] Chenning Li, Xiao Zeng, Mi Zhang, Zhichao Cao. "PyramidFL: A Fine-grained Client Selection Framework for Efficient Federated Learning". Slides Code
[IEEE INFOCOM'22] Chenning Li, Zhichao Cao, Li Xiao. "CurveALOHA: Non-linear Chirps Enabled High Throughput Random Channel Access for LoRa". Slides
[ACM SenSys'21] Chenning Li, Hanqing Guo, Shuai Tong, Xiao Zeng, Zhichao Cao, Mi Zhang, Qiben Yan, Li Xiao, Jiliang Wang, Yunhao Liu. "NELoRa: Towards Ultra-low SNR LoRa Communication with Neural-enhanced Demodulation". Slides Code
[ACM SenSys'20] Chenning Li, Zheng Liu, Yuguang Yao, Zhichao Cao, Mi Zhang, Yunhao Liu. "Wi-Fi See It All: Generative Adversarial Network-augmented Versatile Wi-Fi Imaging". Slides
[IEEE INFOCOM'20] Chenning Li, Manni Liu, Zhichao Cao. "WiHF: Enable User Identified Gesture Recognition with WiFi". Slides

Journal Publications

[ACM CSUR] Chenning Li, Zhichao Cao. "LoRa Networking Techniques for Large-scale and Long-termIoT: A Down-to-top Survey".
[ACM CSUR] Chenning Li, Zhichao Cao, Yunhao Liu. "Deep AI Enabled Ubiquitous Wireless Sensing: A Survey".

Industrial Experience

Microsoft - Research Intern - Networking Research Group. May - Aug 2022
TikTok - Data-System-Network Engineering Intern. Feb - Apr 2022
CodePath - iOS Development Course. Aug - Dec 2020. Awarded the excellent presentation during the CodePath Mobile Development Virtual Demo Day.

Honors and Awards

2023, Finalists for Research PhD Fellowship Award, Meta
2022, Student Grant, USENIX NSDI & IEEE INFOCOM
2021, Best Paper Award, ACM SenSys
2019, Named an Engineering Distinguished Scholar, Michigan State University
2018, Outstanding Undergraduate of Beijing & Tsinghua University
2017, Outstanding Scholarship, Tsinghua University

Teaching Experience

EECS Communication Lab Fellow (Spring 2024 to Present, MIT)
Teaching Assistant: CSE220 - Programming in C (Spring 2021, MSU)
Guest Lecturer: CSE891 - AIoT: Artificial Intelligence in the Edge (Spring 2020 / Fall 2021, MSU)

Professional Services

Program Committee Member
ACM S3 Workshop in MobiCom 2024 - Artifact Evaluation Committee
ACM SIGCOMM 2022, 2023 - Artifact Evaluation Committee
ACM SenSys 2022 - Shadow Program Committee
Reviewer
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wear- able and Ubiquitous Technologies, ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, IEEE Intelligent Transportation System Magazine, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking