Honors & Funding

Fundings
  1. JST Moonshot Goal 3. Project name: 困難な環境における作業を実現するヒューマノイドの統合的研究開発, 2026年7月 - 2030年11月. 原田 研介(PM, PI), 川角 祐一郎(PI), 渡辺 哲陽(PI), 梶田 秀司(PI), 小水内 俊介(PI), 築地原 里樹(PI), 長谷川 泰久(PI), 清川 拓哉(PI), 垣内 洋平(PI), 妹尾 拓(PI), Ling Xiao(PI), 松原 崇充(PI), 赤坂 亮太(PI).
  2. 豊田理研スカラー (公益財団法人豊田理化学研究所). Project name: 自律型ロボティック基盤モデルの構築, 2026.04–2028.03, Amount: 4,000,000 yen.
  3. 若手研究 (日本学術振興会). Project name: Efficient and accurate scaling Graph Neural Networks for giant graphs, 2024.04–2026.03, Amount: 4,680,000 yen.
  4. 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. SOPD-SocialNav: Selective On-Policy Distillation for Vision-Language Social Navigation, X. Zhang, Z. Wang, and L. Xiao*, 2026 WRC Symposium on Advanced Robotics and Automation (WRC SARA) (WRC SARA 2026), accepted, 2026. Best Student Paper Finalist Award!
  4. 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!
  5. LLaVA-Tour: A Large-Scale Multimodal Model Specializing in Japanese Tourist Spot Prediction and Review Generation, H. Yamanishi, L. Xiao*, and T. Yamasaki, VCIP 2024, pp. 1–5, 2024. Best Paper Finalist Award! [Code]
  6. 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. IEICE IE Best paper award!
  7. 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. IEICE IE Best paper award!
  8. Merit Graduate, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (华中科技大学) , 2016–2017.
  9. Outstanding Graduate Student Cadre, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (华中科技大学) , 2015–2016.