Yong Li

38.1k total citations · 13 hit papers
961 papers, 25.8k citations indexed

About

Yong Li is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Transportation. According to data from OpenAlex, Yong Li has authored 961 papers receiving a total of 25.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 361 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 278 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 198 papers in Transportation. Recurrent topics in Yong Li's work include Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (186 papers), Caching and Content Delivery (106 papers) and Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (94 papers). Yong Li is often cited by papers focused on Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (186 papers), Caching and Content Delivery (106 papers) and Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (94 papers). Yong Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Yong Li's co-authors include Depeng Jin, Jing Liu, Hanqing Lu, Yongjun Bao, Jun Fu, Zhiwei Fang, Min Chen, Li Su, Sheng Chen and Yong Niu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Yong Li

879 papers receiving 25.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Dual Attention Network for Scene Segmentation

2019 4.8k citations Yong Li et al. profile →
A survey of millimeter wave communications (mmWave) for 5G: opportunities and challenges

2015 927 citations Yong Li, Depeng Jin et al. profile →
Vehicular Fog Computing: A Viewpoint of Vehicles as the Infrastructures

2016 702 citations Yong Li, Depeng Jin et al. profile →
DeepMove

2018 433 citations Yong Li, Funing Sun et al. profile →
Applying Neural-Network-Based Machine Learning to Additive Manufacturing: Current Applications, Challenges, and Future Perspectives

2019 381 citations Yong Li et al. profile →
Software-Defined Network Function Virtualization: A Survey

2015 360 citations Yong Li et al. profile →
Dynamic Graph Convolutional Recurrent Network for Traffic Prediction: Benchmark and Solution

2022 316 citations Funing Sun, Depeng Jin et al. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data profile →
A Survey of Graph Neural Networks for Recommender Systems: Challenges, Methods, and Directions

2023 312 citations Jinghua Piao, Depeng Jin et al. profile →
Multi-behavior Recommendation with Graph Convolutional Networks

2020 234 citations Depeng Jin, Yong Li et al. profile →
Disentangling User Interest and Conformity for Recommendation with Causal Embedding

2021 200 citations Yong Li, Depeng Jin et al. profile →
Graph Neural Networks for Recommender System

2022 149 citations Yong Li et al. profile →
Large language models empowered agent-based modeling and simulation: a survey and perspectives

2024 51 citations Fengli Xu, Yong Li et al. profile →
Generative AI Empowered Network Digital Twins: Architecture, Technologies, and Applications

2025 26 citations Tong Li, Haoqiang Liu et al. profile →

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yong Li

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yong Li. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yong Li based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Yong Li. Yong Li is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Predicting Mobile App Usage With Context-Aware Dynamic Hypergraphs 2025 ·IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing ·Z. Huang, Tong Li, Xing Wang, (unknown), Chao Deng, Junlan Feng, Yong Li	0
2	AppGen: Mobility-Aware App Usage Behavior Generation for Mobile Users 2025 ·IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing ·Z. Huang, Tong Li, Yong Li	0
3	From Pixels to Insights: Unsupervised Knowledge Graph Generation with Large Language Model 2025 ·Information ·(unknown), Zhenyu Chen, (unknown), (unknown), Yong Li	0
4	Social Physics Informed Diffusion Model for Crowd Simulation 2024 ·Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ·(unknown), Jingtao Ding, Yong Li, Yue Wang, Xiaoping Zhang	5
5	Experimental and numerical evaluation of seismic behavior of coupled walls connected by post-tensioned, unbonded, precast concrete coupling beams 2024 ·Journal of Building Engineering ·Zuanfeng Pan, Haipeng Zhang, Yong Li, Weiwei Sun	3
6	Predicting Long-term Dynamics of Complex Networks via Identifying Skeleton in Hyperbolic Space 2024 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·(unknown), Huandong Wang, Jinghua Piao, Qingmin Liao, Yong Li	1
7	NetDiff: A Service-Guided Hierarchical Diffusion Model for Network Flow Trace Generation 2024 ·(unknown), Tong Li, Depeng Jin, Yong Li	17
8	NeuralCODE: Neural Compartmental Ordinary Differential Equations Model with AutoML for Interpretable Epidemic Forecasting 2024 ·ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data ·(unknown), Huandong Wang, Guanghua Liu, Yong Li, Tao Jiang	1
9	NeuroCrossover: An intelligent genetic locus selection scheme for genetic algorithm using reinforcement learning 2023 ·Applied Soft Computing ·Haoqiang Liu, (unknown), Yong Li, Depeng Jin	17
10	Durable antibacterial cotton fiber surface fabricated by the thiol-ene click reaction between eugenol and L-cysteine 2023 ·Applied Surface Science ·(unknown), Yong Li, (unknown), Jinlin Chen, Jun Liu, Shuangfei Xiang, Feiya Fu, Xiangdong Liu, Ni Li	8
11	How enlightened self-interest guided global vaccine sharing benefits all: A modeling study 2023 ·Journal of Global Health ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Depeng Jin, Fengli Xu, Kun Tang, Yong Li	3
12	Community-based social recommendation under local differential privacy protection 2023 ·Information Sciences ·(unknown), (unknown), Yong Li, M. Zhou, Trieu‐Kien Truong	12
13	Probabilistic error assessment and correction of design code-based shear strength prediction models for reliability analysis of prestressed concrete girders 2023 ·Engineering Structures ·(unknown), John H. Alexander, Yong Li	4
14	STUDY ON THE TEMPORAL-SPATIAL VARIATION CHARACTERISTICS OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICE VALUE IN TOURISM TYPICAL TOWN AT YANYANG TOWN, GUANGDONG PROVINCE 2023 ·GeoJournal of Tourism and Geosites ·(unknown), (unknown), Yong Li	1
15	Asymmetric cross-modal attention network with multimodal augmented mixup for medical visual question answering 2023 ·Artificial Intelligence in Medicine ·Yong Li, (unknown), Fu Lee Wang, Lap–Kei Lee, (unknown), Tianyong Hao	5
16	Demand-driven Urban Facility Visit Prediction 2023 ·ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology ·(unknown), Tong Li, Yuan Yuan, Fengli Xu, (unknown), Funing Sun, Yong Li	1
17	Carbon emissions of 5G mobile networks in China 2023 ·Nature Sustainability ·Tong Li, (unknown), (unknown), Tong Duan, Wenzhen Huang, Yan Zhou, Depeng Jin, Yong Li, Tao Jiang	103
18	Reinforcement Learning Meets Wireless Networks: A Layering Perspective 2020 ·IEEE Internet of Things Journal ·(unknown), Yu Liu, Ming Zeng, Umber Saleem, Zhaoming Lu, Xiangming Wen, Depeng Jin, Zhu Han, Tao Jiang, Yong Li	26
19	Existence of rotating-periodic solutions for nonlinear systems via upper and lower solutions 2017 ·Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics ·Xue Yang, Yu Zhang, Yong Li	7
20	Research on Multi-Objective Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithm Based on Ant Algorithm 2013 ·Research Journal of Applied Sciences Engineering and Technology ·Yong Li, (unknown), Shuang Zhang, Mang I Vai	2

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