Linxiao Cao

About Me

I’m a Ph.D. student in the Artificial Intelligence Thrust at HKUST (Guangzhou), supervised by Prof. Menglin Yang. I received my M.S. from the School of Data Science at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), where I was advised by Prof. Wei Gong.

I welcome opportunities for collaboration—please feel free to reach out.

[Apr 2026] Happy to share our new preprint APT: Delve into the Applicability of Advanced Optimizers for Multi-Task Learning on arXiv.
[Mar 2026] Delighted that Discrete Tokenization for Multimodal LLMs: A Comprehensive Survey was accepted to TPAMI 🎉!
[Feb 2026] Grateful that VarGrad was accepted to CVPR Findings 2026 🎉🥳!
[Nov 2025] A new preprint is out: HyperbolicRAG: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Hyperbolic Representations — now on arXiv.
[Feb 2025] Glad to share that FERRY was accepted to CSCWD 2025 🎉.
[Jun 2024] Our paper SFPrompt is now up on arXiv — feedback is warmly welcome.
[Mar 2024] Happy to note that two of our patents have been granted!
[May 2023] Honored that FedICU was accepted to Internet of Things Journal 2023 🎉!
[Oct 2022] One paper was accepted to Computer Science Journal 2022.

An Inverse Reinforcement Learning-based Approach to ICU Ventilator and Sedative Management, China Patent, Granted, ZL202310151557.4
A Federated Learning-based Approach to Intelligent Clinical Decision Making in Networked ICUs, China Patent, Granted, ZL202310151555.5
Building Intelligent Fire Alarm and Escape System, China Software Copyright, Granted, 2020SR0296931

Remote Research Assistant, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
Sep 2024 – Jan 2025
Research Intern, iFLYTEK Healthcare, Hefei, China
Jun 2019 – Aug 2019
National College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program — Building an Intelligent Fire Alarm and Escape System
Sep 2019 – Dec 2020