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Ling Xiao

Ling Xiao

Tenured Associate Professor（准教授 / 副教授） at Hokkaido University (北海道大学)
客員研究員 in Yamasaki Lab, The University of Tokyo (東京大学)
IEEE Senior Member

From 2025.04.01, I join Hokkaido University as an associate professor. From 2023.10.01–2025.03.31, I was a Project Assistant Professor at CVM (Yamasaki Lab), The University of Tokyo, Japan. From 2021.06 to 2023.10, I was a Project Researcher at CVM (Yamasaki Lab), The University of Tokyo, Japan. In 2020.12, I received my Ph.D. degree at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China. From 2018.10 to 2019.11, I was a visiting student at The University of Queensland, Australia. From 2014.07 to 2015.08, I was a mechanical engineer at BYD Company Limited, P.R. China.

My research interests focus on multimedia signal processing for intelligent perception and decision-making, efficient multimodal language models, robotic navigations, fine-grained representation learning, continual learning, open-world recognition, adversarial attacks, etc..

Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, 9-9 Kita-14-jo Nishi, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0814, Japan
（〒060-0814 札幌市北区北14条西9丁目 北海道大学 大学院情報科学研究院 10-01号室）
ling(at)ist.hokudai.ac.jp, lingxiaodr(at)gmail.com
Old: lingxiao(at)hust.edu.cn, ling(at)cvm.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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News

  • [ 2025.08 ] I am a 客員研究員 of Yamasaki Lab, The University of Tokyo, from 2025.08.01–2026.07.31.
  • [ 2025.07 ] We will organize a workshop on ‘Data-Driven and AI-Empowered Future of Low-Altitude Economy (DALAE 2025) in WISE 2025’, Dec 15–17, 2025, Morocco. Details here. Deadline: Jul 30.
  • [ 2025.07 ] We achieved Best Paper Award in ICMR 2025!
  • [ 2025.05 ] I will co-organize a workshop Secure and Safe AI Agents for Big Data Infrastructures in BigData 2025, Dec 8–11, 2025, Macau.
  • [ 2025.05 ] I will be an Associate Editor for IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 2025.06.10–2029.06.07.
  • [ 2025.05 ] Conference Chair of APIT 2026 & CVCI 2026, Jan 9–11, 2026, Hokkaido, Japan.
  • [ 2025.04 ] Selected as IEEE Senior Member.
  • [ 2025.04 ] Hiring JSPS PD… Please feel free to contact me.
  • [ 2025.04 ] Start at Hokkaido University as Associate Professor.
  • [ 2025.02 ] Selected as Youth Editorial Board Member of 智能安全.
  • [ 2025.02 ] Invited talk at IVSP 2025, “Revolutionizing AI Applications: Innovative Approaches with Multimodal Large Language Models”.
  • [ 2024.09 ] Invited talk at CITA 2024, “Large multimodal model based recommendation systems”.
  • [ 2024.04 ] 若手研究. Project: Efficient and accurate scaling Graph Neural Networks for giant graphs, 2024.04–2026.04, 4,680,000 yen.
  • [ 2024.03 ] Invited talk at 信学技報, MVE, “The Past, Current and Future of Fashion Image Retrieval: Toward a User-Centered Orientation”.
  • [ 2023.11 ] Adjunct Project Assistant Professor at Beyond AI 研究推進機構.
  • [ 2023.10 ] Invited talk at BAI Research Seminar, “Affordable and advanced artificial intelligence in fashion”.
  • [ 2023.10 ] Project Assistant Professor, Yamasaki Lab, The University of Tokyo.
  • [ 2022.09 ] Received AIセンター融合研究促進費. “Explainable Recommendations AI”, 2022.10–2023.04, 2,000,000 yen.
  • [ 2022.07 ] Adjunct researcher at Beyond AI 研究推進機構 (“メタバース空間におけるユーザ体験最適化”).
  • [ 2021.06 ] Project Researcher, Yamasaki Lab, The University of Tokyo.
  • [ 2020.12 ] Ph.D., Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
  • [ 2018.10–2019.11 ] Visiting student at The University of Queensland, Australia.
  • [ 2018.06 ] China Scholarship Council Scholarship (No: 20180616011) (1/10).