Hi, everyone! I am Xi Xiao, a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, advised by Dr. Tianyang Wang, and co-advised by Dr. Min Xu from Carnegie Mellon University.

I am currently conducting a long-term research internship at the Computational Sciences and Engineering Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, supervised by Dr. Xiao Wang.

I am a finalist for the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2025.

My research interests include:

• Efficient Domain Adaptation for Large Foundation Models (SC’25, ACM MM’25, COLM’25, EMNLP’25, CVPRW’25)
• Image / Video Generation / Understanding (ICCV’25, NeurIPS’25, ICMLW’25, WACV’26)

I'm always open to collaboration and discussion, if you're interested in my research or have any awesome ideas, please do not hesitate to contact me :)