Xu Cao
About me
I am the co-founder of PediaMed AI, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing AI technologies for pediatrics. Currently, I am a Ph.D. student at the Health Care Engineering Systems Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. James M. Rehg and Prof. Jimeng Sun.
Before starting my Ph.D., I gained industry experience as a Machine Learning Engineer at SambaNova Systems and Tencent, where I worked on cutting-edge AI solutions for autonomous driving and image/video generation. My research focuses on developing innovative AI-driven approaches such as Vision Language Models, Diffusion Models to improve both autonomous driving and healthcare.
❗I am looking for Research Intern opportunities in the 2025 Summer and 2025 Fall.
I am also seeking a full-time/part-time remote Research Scientist or AI Consultant role in Hong Kong. Feel free to reach out to me via LinkedIn or email.
News
| Feb 26, 2025 | SocialGesture is accepted by CVPR 2025. Thanks Prof. Sangmin Lee and Prof. Jim Rehg leading the project. |
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| Jan 2, 2025 | I am serving as the General chair of ICLR 2025 Workshop on AI for Children (AI4CHL) together with Prof. Jintai Chen. |
| Dec 20, 2024 | Co-organizing CVPR 2025 Workshop on Distillation of Foundation Models for Autonomous Driving with Dr. Burhan Yaman and Yunsheng. |
| Oct 1, 2024 | I am serving as the Research roundtable subchair of Machine Learning for Health Symposium (ML4H 2024). Our research roundtable summary is aviliable here. |
| Jul 8, 2024 | Two papers are accepted by CVPR 2024. |