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Prof. Jingao Xu
Professor Jingao XU
Assistant Professor
BEng, PhD
  3917 8234
  CB-522
Research Interests:
Mobile and Edge Computing; Embodied and Embedded AI; Drone-based Autonomous Systems; Cyber-Physical Systems.

Biography

Jingao XU is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). Prior to joining HKU, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University. He received both his Ph.D. (2022) and B.E. (2017) degrees with highest honors from Tsinghua University.

Jingao XU works on building mobile systems, with a long-term focus on exploring how cutting-edge CV/AI advances can empower running robots, flying drones, and soaring satellites to operate in the real world. His works have appeared in top system and mobile computing venues such as NSDI/EuroSys, MobiCom/MobiSys/SenSys, ICCV/CVPR, with industrial deployments demonstrating practical impact.

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Selected Publications

  • Xu, J., Chen, X., Bala, M., Eiszler, T., Chanana, A., Harkes, J., Pillai, B., & Satyanarayanan, M. (2026). Towards fast and fully automatic drone mapping. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys).

  • Xu, J., Shangguan, L., Li, D., Liu, Y., & Yang, Z. (2026). E-Cube: Event enhanced efficient video streaming for drones. In Proceedings of the ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys).

  • Zhao, C., Ruan, C., Xu, J., Wang, H., Wang, S., Zha, J., Li, J., Yang, Z., Liu, Y., Zhang, X.-P., & Chen, X. (2024). Foes or friends: Embracing ground effect for edge detection on lightweight drones. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom).

  • Xu, J., Li, D., Shangguan, L., Zhao, Y., Cao, H., Liu, Y., & Yang, Z. (2023). Taming event cameras with bio-inspired architecture and algorithm: A case for drone obstacle avoidance. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom).

  • Xu, J., Cao, H., Yang, Z., Shangguan, L., Zhang, J., He, X., & Liu, Y. (2022). SwarmMap: Scaling up real-time collaborative visual SLAM at the edge. In Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI).