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Dr. Bojie Li is Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Pine AI. In 2019, Dr. Li obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), supervised by Prof. Lintao Zhang and Prof. Enhong Chen. He has published papers on top conferences such as SIGCOMM, SOSP, NSDI, ATC, and PLDI. He is a recipient of ACM China Doctoral Dissertation Award and Microsoft Research Asia Ph.D. Fellowship Award.
Contact Info
- Email:
bojieli AT gmail.com - Mobile:
15011272877(China) /(425) 535-3390(US) - WeChat:
bojustc(also searchable via mobile number) - Zhihu: https://www.zhihu.com/people/li-bo-jie
- Mastodon: @[email protected]
Pine AI
Pine AI builds fully autonomous agents that handle phone calls and negotiations for users. We have deep expertise in real-time voice, fast/slow reasoning, RL, knowledge systems, and computer use.
🚀 We’re hiring full-stack engineer building cutting-edge autonomous AI systems.
What we’re looking for:
- Proficient with AI coding tools (Cursor, etc.) - can ship features in 30min with AI assistance
- Strong software engineering practices
- Passionate problem-solver who loves hands-on coding
- Excited about early-stage startup environment
- Deep interest in LLMs & latest AI trends
- Hands-on AI Agent development experience
Ready to shape the future of AI agents? Let’s talk!
Publications
List of Publications (Google Scholar). Total citations: 1,780+, h-index: 15.
⭐ First-Author Publications at Top Venues
- 🏆 ClickNP: Highly flexible and High-performance Network Processing with Reconfigurable Hardware (388 citations)
Bojie Li, Kun Tan, Layong (Larry) Luo, Yanqing Peng, Renqian Luo, Ningyi Xu, Yongqiang Xiong, Peng Cheng.
Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGCOMM Conference (SIGCOMM ‘16). - 🏆 KV-Direct: High-Performance In-Memory Key-Value Store with Programmable NIC (332 citations)
Bojie Li, Zhenyuan Ruan (co-first authors), Wencong Xiao, Yuanwei Lu, Yongqiang Xiong, Andrew Putnam, Enhong Chen, Lintao Zhang.
Proceedings of the 26th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP ‘17). - SocksDirect: Datacenter Sockets Can be Fast and Compatible (83 citations)
Bojie Li, Tianyi Cui (co-first authors), Zibo Wang, Wei Bai, Lintao Zhang.
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGCOMM Conference (SIGCOMM ‘19). - 1Pipe: Scalable Total Order Communication in Data Center Networks
Bojie Li, Gefei Zuo, Wei Bai, Lintao Zhang.
Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM Conference (SIGCOMM ‘21). - FastWake: Revisiting Host Network Stack for Interrupt-mode RDMA
Bojie Li, Zihao Xiang, Xiaoliang Wang, Han Ruan, Jingbin Zhou, Kun Tan.
Proceedings of the 7th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNET 2023).
Co-Authored Publications (ordered by publication date)
- Modeling the Interplay between Loop Tiling and Fusion in Optimizing Compilers Using Affine Relations
Jie Zhao, Jinchen Xu, Peng Di, Wang Nie, Jiahui Hu, Yanzhi Yi, Sijia Yang, Zhen Geng, Renwei Zhang, Bojie Li, Zhiliang Gan, Xuefeng Jin.
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Volume 41, Issue 1-4 (TOCS), 2024. - StaR: Breaking the Scalability Limit for RDMA (38 citations)
Xizheng Wang, Guo Chen, Xijin Yin, Huichen Dai, Bojie Li, Binzhang Fu, Kun Tan.
2021 IEEE 29th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP ‘21). - 🏆 AKG: Automatic Kernel Generation for Neural Processing Units Using Polyhedral Transformations (101 citations)
Jie Zhao, Bojie Li, Wang Nie, Zhen Geng, Renwei Zhang, Xiong Gao, Bin Cheng, Chen Wu, Yun Cheng, Zheng Li, Peng Di, Kun Zhang, Xuefeng Jin.
Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Languages Design and Implementation (PLDI ‘21). - Online Deadline-Aware Task Dispatching and Scheduling in Edge Computing (129 citations)
Jiaying Meng, Haisheng Tan, Xiang-Yang Li, Zhenhua Han, Bojie Li.
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2020. - Joint Heterogeneous Server Placement and Application Configuration in Edge Computing
Jiaying Meng, Chaoliang Zeng, Haisheng Tan, Zining Li, Bojie Li, Xiang-Yang Li.
IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS ‘19). - MP-RDMA: Enabling RDMA With Multi-Path Transport in Datacenters (45 citations)
Guo Chen, Yuanwei Lu, Bojie Li, Kun Tan, Yongqiang Xiong, Peng Cheng, Jiansong Zhang, Thomas Moscibroda.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 2019. - Towards Stateless RNIC for Data Center Networks
Pulin Pan, Guo Chen, Xizheng Wang, Huichen Dai, Bojie Li, Binzhang Fu, Kun Tan.
Proceedings of the 3rd Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNet ‘19). - Dedas: Online Task Dispatching and Scheduling with Bandwidth Constraint in Edge Computing (170 citations)
Jiaying Meng, Haisheng Tan, Chao Xu, Wanli Cao, Liuyan Liu, Bojie Li.
IEEE INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications. - FUSO: Fast Multi-Path Loss Recovery for Data Center Networks (39 citations)
Guo Chen, Yuanwei Lu, Yuan Meng, Bojie Li, Kun Tan, Dan Pei, Peng Cheng, Layong Luo, Yongqiang Xiong, Xiaoliang Wang, Youjian Zhao.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 2018. - ST-Accel: A High-Level Programming Platform for Streaming Applications on FPGA (37 citations)
Zhenyuan Ruan, Tong He, Bojie Li, Peipei Zhou, Jason Cong.
IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM ‘18). - A High-Performance and Flexible Chemical Structure & Data Search Engine Built on CouchDB & ElasticSearch
Ren-zhi Li, Bo-jie Li, Guo-zhen Zhang, Jun Jiang, Yi Luo.
Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics, Volume 31, Number 2. - 🏆 Multi-Path Transport for RDMA in Datacenters (163 citations)
Yuanwei Lu, Guo Chen, Bojie Li, Kun Tan, Yongqiang Xiong, Peng Cheng, Jiansong Zhang, Enhong Chen, Thomas Moscibroda.
Proceedings of the 15th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ‘18). - The Feniks FPGA Operating System for Cloud Computing (90 citations)
Jiansong Zhang, Yongqiang Xiong, Ningyi Xu, Ran Shu, Bojie Li, Peng Cheng, Guo Chen, Thomas Moscibroda.
Proceedings of the 8th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys ‘17). - Memory Efficient Loss Recovery for Hardware-based Transport in Datacenter (47 citations)
Yuanwei Lu, Guo Chen, Zhenyuan Ruan, Wencong Xiao, Bojie Li, Jiansong Zhang, Yongqiang Xiong, Peng Cheng, Enhong Chen.
Proceedings of the First Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNet ‘17). - Fast and Cautious: Leveraging Multi-path Diversity for Transport Loss Recovery in Data Centers (55 citations)
Guo Chen, Yuanwei Lu, Yuan Meng, Bojie Li, Kun Tan, Dan Pei, Peng Cheng, Layong (Larry) Luo, Yongqiang Xiong, Xiaoliang Wang, Youjian Zhao.
Proceedings of the 2016 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC ‘16).
Patents
- Communication method, apparatus, and system, and storage medium
Hongfei Shen, Guo Chen, Bojie Li.
US Patent US20250370862A1, 2025. - REQUEST PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM
Dongxu Li, Xu Zhang, Bojie Li.
EP Patent EP4535149A4, 2025. - Memory Access Method and Related Device
Bojie Li, Amit Geron, Shamir Rabinovitch.
US Patent US20250085853A1, 2025. - Establishment of queue between threads in user space
Bojie Li, Tianyi Cui, Zibo Wang, Wei Bai, Lintao Zhang.
US Patent 11,880,725, 2024. - Network device-based data processing method and network device
Bojie Li, Lei Zhou.
US Patent US20240427598A1, 2024. - Establishment of socket connection in user space
Bojie Li, Tianyi Cui, Zibo Wang, Wei Bai, Lintao Zhang.
US Patent US11792272B2, 2023. - Implementation of sockets in user space
Bojie Li, Tianyi Cui, Zibo Wang, Wei Bai, Lintao Zhang.
WO Patent WO2020096870A1, 2020. - Total-order message mechanism in a distributed system
Lintao Zhang, Wei Bai, Gefei Zuo, Bojie Li.
WO Patent WO2019226367A1, 2019.
Invited Talks
| Date | Invited Talk |
|---|---|
| 2025.12 | First Intelligent Agent Networks and Applications Innovation Conference - The Next Stop for Agent–Human Interaction: Real-Time Voice and Generative UI |
| 2025.12 | AWS re:Invent 2025 Beijing Meetup - Silicon Valley AI Observations: The Million-Dollar-Per-Year Model Wars and How Startups Survive |
| 2025.11 | 1st Frontier AI Systems Workshop (FAISys’25) - Self-Evolving Real-Time Agents |
| 2025.10 | 2025 X-AGI & The 18th China-R Conference - From Memory to Cognition: How AI Agents Achieve Truly Personalized Service |
| 2025.09 | China Merchants Group Lion Rock Artificial Intelligence Lab - The Two Dark Clouds Over Agents: Real-Time and Environment Interaction, Learning from Experience |
| 2025.06 | A2M Internet Architecture and AI Technology Summit - Agents That Get Things Done: Real-Time and Environment Interaction, Learning from Experience |
| 2025.04 | 2025 China Generative AI Conference - New Exploration of AI Agents: Building AI-Native Teams and Enabling AI Employees |
| 2025.03 | GeekPark “Tonight’s Tech Talk” Live Stream - AI Agents, Destined to Explode |
| 2025.03 | NetEase Tech Live Stream - Will Manus Usher In the First Year of Agents? |
| 2024.11 | Zhihu Academic Bar - Was There a Moment When You Felt Like the World Had a Bug? |
| 2024.10 | ByteDance MarsCode 1024 Coding Night |
| 2024.07 | USTC 2024 Reunion Commemoration Conference |
| 2024.01 | Zhihu First AI Pioneers Salon - The Next Stop of Generative AI: More Fun or More Useful? |
| 2023.12 | USTC Alumni Association Beijing AI Salon - Should AI Agents Be More Fun or More Useful? |
| 2023.04 | Hunan University, Changsha, China. |
| 2022.12 | Peking University, Online Guest Lecture. [Slides: The New Golden Age of Computer Networking] |
| 2021.07 | ACM Turing Award Celebration Conference - China (ACM TURC 2021), Hefei. [Slides: ACM China Doctoral Dissertation Award Lecture] |
| 2021.07 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Online. [Slides: Towards SmartNICs in Data Center Systems] |
| 2021.06 | The Fifth Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNet ‘21), Online. [Slides] [Video] [Video backup link] |
| 2020.05 | ShanghaiTech University, Online Guest Lecture. Slides |
| 2019.11 | The 2nd Internet Architecture Conference (CICC’19), Chengdu. Slides |
| 2018.09 | Google, Inc., Beijing |
| 2018.09 | Cambricon Technologies, Beijing |
| 2017.12 | Open Source Operating System Annual Technical Conference 2017 (OS2ATC ‘17), Beijing |
| 2017.11 | Baidu Corporation, Beijing |
| 2017.11 | University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei |
| 2017.11 | Fudan University, Shanghai |
| 2017.08 | The First Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNet ‘17), Hong Kong |
| 2017.07 | China SDN Research Training Camp, Nanjing |
| 2016.10 | Microsoft Research Asia Ph.D. Forum, Beijing |
| 2016.09 | Tsinghua University Ph.D. Forum, Beijing |
| 2016.08 | University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei |
Education
| Date | Education |
|---|---|
| 2014 - 2019 | Joint Ph.D. program with Microsoft Research Asia and University of Science and Technology of China, Ph.D. in Computer Science |
| 2010 - 2014 | Undergraduate, School of Gifted Young (major in Computer Science), University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui |
| 2007 - 2010 | No.2 High School, Shijiazhuang, Hebei |
| 2004 - 2007 | No.2 Middle School, Shijiazhuang, Hebei |
| 1999 - 2004 | Zhongshan Primary School, Shijiazhuang, Hebei |
Internships
| Date | Internship |
|---|---|
| 2016.09 - 2019.05 | Research Intern, Intelligent Cloud and Edge group (Systems Research group), MSRA |
| 2015.07 - 2016.09 | Research Intern, Wireless and Networking group, MSRA |
| 2014.07 - 2014.09 | Research Intern, Wireless and Networking group, MSRA |
| 2013.07 - 2014.05 | Research Intern, Wireless and Networking group, MSRA |
Awards
🏆 Prestigious Awards
| Date | Award |
|---|---|
| 2019.12 | ⭐ ACM China Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (ACM China Doctoral Dissertation Award, issued in July 2021, Award Ceremony Video, Thesis PDF) |
| 2017.10 | ⭐ Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship (Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship Award) — Top 10 Ph.D. students in Asia-Pacific |
| 2019.12 | ACM ChinaSys Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award |
| 2019.06 | CAS Presidential Scholarship |
Competition Awards
| Date | Award |
|---|---|
| 2017.12 | 🥇 Global 1st place in IT Pros Category, Microsoft Hackathon 2017 |
| 2016.08 | 🥈 Global 2nd place in Cloud and Enterprise Category, Microsoft Hackathon 2016 |
| 2017.08 | Most Impact Award in Beijing Venue, Microsoft Hackathon 2017 |
| 2016.10 | Best Presentation Award, MSRA Student Techfest 2016 |
| 2009.07 | Bronze medal in National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI 2009) (69th nationwide) |
| 2009.10 | First prize in Hebei Province in the National High School Mathematics League (Top 10 in Hebei) |
| 2008.11 | First prize in Hebei Province in National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces (NOIP 2008) (2nd in Hebei) |
Academic Awards
| Date | Award |
|---|---|
| 2017.10 | China National Ph.D. Scholarship |
| 2019.04 | Honored Graduate in Anhui Province |
| 2019.04 | Honored Graduate in USTC |
| 2013.08 | “Microsoft Young Scholar” Award |
| 2013.05 | Outstanding Student Cadre of the University |
| 2013.02 | Participated in Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), Successful Participant |
| 2012.01 | “Website Development Seminar” Outstanding Lecturer |
| 2011.10 | Robogame Robot Competition of the University, team won Best Creativity Award in the Service Robot Group |
Professional Activities
| Date | Role |
|---|---|
| 2025.12 - 2026.08 | Program Committee member, APNet 2026. |
| 2025.04 - 2025.05 | Program Committee member, ChinaSys 2025. |
| 2025.02 - 2025.12 | Program Committee member, NeurIPS 2025. |
| 2025.02 - now | Developer of Surf Video Editor |
| 2024.11 - now | Core Developer of iCourses.com |
| 2024.10 - 2025.08 | Program Committee member, APNet 2025. |
| 2021.12 - now | Member of ACM ChinaSys Youth Committee |
| 2015.02 - now | Member of development team of USTC Course Evaluation Community |
| 2024.04 - 2024.07 | Program Committee member, APSys 2024 |
| 2021.06 - 2021.06 | External Reviewer, APNet’21 Posters. |
| 2020.06 - 2020.06 | Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS). |
| 2015.09 - 2016.01 | Teaching Assistant, Advanced Software Engineering course, Microsoft Research Asia |
| 2013.01 - 2013.07 | Member, USTC Gewu IoT Startup Team |
| 2012.05 - 2013.05 | President, University Linux User Association (Linux User Group) |
| 2011.05 - 2012.05 | Co-founder and first head of Technology Department, Student Union of School of the Gifted Young |
| 2011.05 - 2012.01 | First head of Technology Department, Network Office of the Communist Youth League Committee of the University |
| 2010.09 - 2011.05 | Co-founder and vice president, Gewu Zhizhi Society of the University |