Honors & Funding

Fundings
  1. 若手研究. Project name: Efficient and accurate scaling Graph Neural Networks for giant graphs, 2024.04–2026.03, Amount: 4,680,000 yen.
  2. AIセンター融合研究促進費 (Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Research Center, UTokyo). Project name: Explainable Recommendations AI, 2022.10–2023.03, Amount: 2,000,000 yen.
Scholarship
  1. China Scholarship Council Scholarship (No: 20180616011) (1/10).
  2. National First-class Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the P. R. China, 2018–2019.
  3. National First-class Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the P. R. China, 2017–2018.
  4. National Second-class Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the P. R. China, 2016–2017.
  5. National Second-class Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the P. R. China, 2015–2016.
  6. Outstanding Third-Class Scholarship, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2015–2016.
Award & Honor
  1. UTS （Australia） Visiting Fellowship, L. Xiao, University of Technology Sydney, AUD$10,000, May, 2026.
  2. NVIDIA Academic Grant Program Award, L. Xiao, NVIDIA, I was awarded 32k A100 GPU hours and 2x Jetson AGX Orin Dev Kit. , March, 2026.
  3. TourMLLM: A Retrieval-Augmented Multimodal Large Language Model for Multitask Learning in the Tourism Domain, H. Yamanishi, L. Xiao* (corresponding author), and T. Yamasaki, The 15th ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), pp. 1654–1663, 2025, [Best paper award!]
  4. A Multimodal Dataset for Socially Compliant Navigation in Urban Environments, Z. Liu, Z. Wang, X. Zhang, T. Kawabata, L. Xiao, 信学技報, vol. 125, no. 356, IE2025-63, pp. 49-54, 2026年2月. [IE賞]
  5. Improving Adversarial Robustness in Continual Learning, K. Mukai, S. Kumano, N. Michel, L. Xiao, and T. Yamasaki, 信学技報, 画像工学研究会 (IE), vol.123, no.381, IE2023-37, pp.13–18, 2024. [IE賞]
  6. Merit Graduate, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (华中科技大学) , 2016–2017.
  7. Outstanding Graduate Student Cadre, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (华中科技大学) , 2015–2016.