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
NGDBench: Towards Neural Graph Data Management
Yufei Li, Yisen Gao, Jaixuan Xiong, Jiaxin Bai, etc.
EMNLP2026 Fingdings
😺Sincere gratitude to my senior Jiaxin and my labmates.
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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.
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.
Intelligent bi-objective optimization method for large-scale group decision-making based on hesitant fuzzy linguistic preference relations with granularity level
Yuanhang Zheng, Zeshui Xu, Yufei Li*, Zhang Yi (*The only student author.)
Accepted! IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems,2024.
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
Academic Related
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.