Xu Cao

Research Director, PediaMed AI
PhD student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Joined
May 2022

Names

Xu Cao (Preferred)
, 
IrohXu
, 
X Cao
, 
Xu C
, 
XC
, 
Cao Xu

Emails

****@nyu.edu (Confirmed)
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****@fudan.edu.cn (Confirmed)
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****@sambanovasystems.com (Confirmed)
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****@illinois.edu (Confirmed)
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****@nyulangone.org (Confirmed)
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****@nec-labs.com (Confirmed)
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****@google.com (Confirmed)
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****@pediamed.ai (Confirmed)
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****@stanford.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Research Director
PediaMed AI (pediamed.ai)
2025 – Present
PhD student
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (cs.illinois.edu)
2023 – 2027
Software Engineer
Sambanova Systems (sambanovasystems.com)
2022 – 2023
Research Engineer
Tencent (tencent.com)
2021 – 2022
Researcher
Dow, Inc. (dow.com)
2020 – 2021
Undergrad student
Fudan University (fudan.edu.cn)
2016 – 2020

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor
Jimeng Sun
2023 – Present
PhD Advisor
James Matthew Rehg
2023 – Present

Expertise

Social Embodied AI
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Social Robot
2025 – Present
Multimodal LLMs
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Vision Language Models
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Agentic AI
2023 – Present
AI for Social Impact
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AI for Pediatrics
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AI for Health
2022 – Present
Neurodevelopment
2018 – Present
Embodied AI
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Autonomous Driving
2022 – 2024
Biophysics
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Catch Bond
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Slip Bond
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Neuroscience
, 
CRISPR
2016 – 2020

Publications

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Co-Authors

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