Linxiao Cao

About Me

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

I am always open to potential collaborations. Please feel free to contact me.

[Feb 2026] Our paper VarGrad is accepted to CVPR Findings 2026 🎉🥳!
[Nov 2025] Excited to release our paper HyperbolicRAG: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Hyperbolic Representations on arXiv.
[Aug 2025] Thrilled to share our paper Discrete Tokenization for Multimodal LLMs: A Comprehensive Survey on arXiv.
[Feb 2025] Our paper FERRY is accepted to CSCWD 2025🎉.
[Jun 2024] Excited to share our paper SFPrompt on arXiv.
[Mar 2024] Our two patents are granted!
[May 2023] Our paper FedICU is accepted to Internet of Things Journal 2023 🎉!
[Oct 2022] One paper is 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 at University of Georgia, Athens, USA
Sep 2024 – Jan 2025
Research Intern at iFLYTEK Healthcare, Hefei, China
Jun 2019 – Aug 2019
National College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program,
Building intelligent fire alarm and escape system
Sep 2019 – Jul 2020