Cheng DENG

About Me

Currently, I am a Research Fellow at the Bayes Centre, the University of Edinburgh, working in collaboration with Prof. Luo Mai, Prof. Jeff Pan, and Prof. Jun Wang. I served as the visiting research fellow at Li Auto. Prior to joining the University of Edinburgh, I was a Research Assistant at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), where I worked with Prof. Lei Chen and Prof. Lionel M. Ni. I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Acemap IIOT Lab at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where I had the privilege of being supervised by Prof. Weinan Zhang, Prof. Luoyi Fu, and Prof. Xinbing Wang. During my early research career, I interned with the Data Team at TikTok and as an Applied Scientist at Amazon Shanghai AI Lab. In 2021, I was also selected for the Wenjun Wu Honored Ph.D. Class.

My research interests include efficient machine learning algorithms and data mining. My publications can be found on Google Scholar.

News

[2026-04] 1 paper accepted by ACL 2026, 2 papers accepted by ICLR 2026, 1 paper accepted by MLSys 2026!
[2026-04] I hosted an academic workshop at the Bayes Centre, University of Edinburgh, titled “Edge AI Agent Workshop”, where I also delivered a talk on “Efficient AI Agent on the Edge”.
[2026-03] Invited show on NiklasOPF Prodcast, sharing “PLM: Peripheral Language Model” and “Hardware co-Design Scaling Law”!
[2026-02] Invited talk on “Efficient LLM on the Edge” at the Cardiff NLP Group seminar in Cardiff University!
[2025-12] Invited talk on “Efficient Physical AI and Beyond” at Li Auto AI Sharing seminar!