Yufei Li

Yufei Li

About Me I am Yufei Li (俞菲), a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

About Me

I am Yufei Li (俞菲), a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), advised by Prof. Yangqiu Song. My research interests include Neural Database, Abductive Reasoning, AI-Driven Deep Discovery and Research.

When I was an undergraduate, I was fortunate to be in IDs Lab | SCU,where I studied and grew with my dear advisor and lab-mates. Before that I work with Prof.Yuanhang Zheng on Intelligent Decision.

Yufei's Latest News

  • 🇭🇺 2026.8: NGDBench is accepted by EMNLP 2026💚! Looking forward to do more interesting exploration. See you again, EMNLP~😝)
  • 😺 2025.11: Thanks to the support of Prof. Yangqiu Song, I traveled to Suzhou and attended EMNLP2025, where I made new friends and got to know what is going on in NLP community. (Beautiful Suzhou, with well preserved culture, is a delicate artwork💚)
Older news
  • 🎄 2024.12: GPTuner (the VLDB 2024 work) is selected for the 2024 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Awards!
  • 🎄 2024.8: I presented GPTuner at VLDB 2024!

I am really excited about what I learned at the conference and became more interested in DB & AI research!

Publications

Publications In Phd-Candidate Period

Others

  • PatchWorld: Gradient-Free Optimization of Executable World Models

    • jiaxin Bai, etc.

Publications In Undergraduate Period

  • GPTuner: A Manual-Reading Database Tuning System via GPT-Guided Bayesian Optimization

    • Jiale Lao, Yibo Wang, Yufei Li, Jianping Wang, Yunjia Zhang, Zhiyuan Chen, Wanghu Chen, Mingjie Tang, Jianguo Wang

    • Accepted! Very Large Data Bases Conference (VLDB),2024.

    • vldb.org/pvldb/vol17/p1939-tang.pdf

  • A Demonstration of GPTuner: A GPT-Based Manual-Reading Database Tuning System

    • Jiale Lao*, Yibo Wang*, Yufei Li*, Jianping Wang, Yunjia Zhang, Zhiyuan Chen, Wanghu Chen, Mingjie Tang, Jianguo Wang

    • Accepted! SIGMOD Demo,2024.

    • GPTuner Demo (SIGMOD'24) - YouTube

Projects & Awards

  • National College Students Mathematical Contest in Modeling——First Prize (Provincial)

  • Asia and Pacific Mathematical Contest in Modeling——First Prize (National)

  • Easy-English: An English-Learning Website

Skills

Languages

Chinese

Native speaker

English

Proficient speaker

Python, C&C++, SQL, Java

I enjoy coding and create new things by programming.

Technical writing

I enjoy writing about technical subjects and I feel I can do a pretty good job about it! My motivation is explaining things in simple and practical terms and thus making things easier for others.

Hobbies

Arts

Drawing 👩‍🔧: I have a series of self-designed comic.

Calligraphy👩‍🏭:I love creating poems and writing them down with calligraphy.

Listening Music & Musical Play✨: I am a big fan of SodaGreen.

Exercise

Badminton🥍

Hiking 🚶‍♀️

Riding 🚴‍♀️

Psychology

I'm really interested in psychology💚💝, and I' ve engaged in some related voluntary work. I believe that understanding psychology provides the key to individuals' happiness.

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