Short Bio

Hi! I’m Yimeng Liu, a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University (MSU), advised by Dr. Zhichao Cao.
I received my B.S. in Mathematics from Virginia Tech in 2023.

My research lies at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) and intelligent sensing systems, with a strong emphasis on:

• Large Language Models (LLMs) and parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT, LoRA, QLoRA)
• Reinforcement Learning (RL) for adaptive decision-making in simulation-to-real environments (e.g., CARLA)
• Computer Vision (CV) for multimodal fusion and robust perception
• Wireless & mmWave radar sensing for next-generation AIoT applications in autonomous systems and agriculture

I have published in ACM MobiCom (2024), IEEE INFOCOM (2025), and ACM SenSys (2025).
Recent projects include multimodal fusion for robust AI sensing, LLM + RL for cognitive-aware driving assistance, and cross-modality knowledge distillation for perception under adverse conditions.

News

• [Jul. 2025] Our paper, Hydra-Bench, is published on arxiv.
• [Jul. 2025] My story has been highlighted by MSUTODAY
• [Mar. 2025] Our paper Proteus has been accepted at SenSys'25.
• [Dec. 2024] Our paper Adonis and AeroEcho has been accepted at INFOCOM'25.
• [Oct. 2024] Invited talk at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa.
• [Aug. 2024] Our paper has been accepted at MobiCom'24.
• [Aug. 2024] Attended the NSF workshop on Substantial Computing at Purdue University.
• [May. 2023] Pursuing a Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Dr. Zhichao Cao at Michigan State University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
• [June. 2023] Our paper has been accepted at MobiSys'23. Check it out here.
• [May. 2023] Graduated from Virginia Tech with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics!
• [Aug. 2022] Our paper has been accepted by Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. Check it out here.
• [May. 2022] Summer Research Intern at EIN Lab under the supervision of Dr. Zhichao Cao.
• [Oct. 2020] Undergraduate Research under the supervision of Dr. Rolf Müller.

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