Jingao Xu|徐京傲

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Assistant Professor, ECE

E-mail: jingaoxu@hku.hk

Office: CB-612

The University of Hong Kong

Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong SAR

I am currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), the University of Hong Kong (HKU). Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University working with Prof. Mahadev Satyanarayanan. I received both my B.E. (2017) and Ph.D. (2022) degrees with highest honors at the School of Software, Tsinghua University, under the supervision of Prof. Zheng Yang and Prof. Yunhao Liu.

How can cutting-edge CV/AI advances empower running robots, flying drones, and soaring satellites (NOT just excel on datasets or in simulators)? The only way to think this question and validate your answers is building effective mobile systems. To this end, my current research interests include:

  • Embodied, Embedded, and Autonomous Systems
  • Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT), Edge Computing
  • Drone-based Systems, Event Camera, Vision Foundation Models

[OPENING] I’m actively seeking highly motivated students to join our group at HKU. See Note to Prospective Students.


News

Mar, 2026 Our work SwiftMap on drone-based fast and fully automatic 3D mapping was accepted by ACM MobiSys 2026
Feb, 2026 Our work x^2-Fusion leveraging event camera for Cross-Modality and Cross-Dimension Flow Estimation got accepted by IEEE/CVF CVPR 2026
Dec, 2025 Our survey focuses on Event-Camera-based Embedded and Embodied Perception got accepted by ACM CSUR
Sep, 2025 Our benchmarking work trying to answer the fundamental question, Does Accurate Real-Time AI Need Edge Offload?, got accepted by ACM/IEEE SEC 2025
Sep, 2025 Extended version of TransformLoc and mmE-Loc got accepted by IEEE TMC
Sep, 2025 Our work EventPro got accepted by ACM SenSys 2026. Propeller can now be served as the entry sensing point for drone
Sep, 2025 Our work E-Cube for drone-based integrated computing and communication got accepted by ACM EuroSys 2026
Jul, 2025 Our work PRE-Mamba on raw-data-level event camera denoising using mamba got accepted by ICCV 2025
Jun, 2025 VISC, which achieves mmWave-based scene flow estimation with vision supervision is accepted by IEEE/RSJ IROS 2025
Apr, 2025 Our work TerraSLAM, on GPS-Denied Global Positioning for Drones, got accepted by ACM MobiSys 2025. Extended version of MobiAir got accepted by IEEE TMC
Feb, 2025 Our work mmE-Loc, on accurate landing for Meituan Delivery Drones, got accepted by ACM SenSys 2025
Jul, 2024 Invited to serve as the Finance Co-Chair of ACM MobiSys 2025. Consider submitting your best works!
Jun, 2024 Extended version of edgeSLAM2 and BioDrone were accepted by IEEE TMC :sparkles:
May, 2024 Our two works RF-Diffusion, on RF-oriented generative AI, and AirTouch, on drone-based real-time computing, got accepted by ACM MobiCom 2024. Each of them received all four badges from Artifact Evaluation :sparkles:
Mar, 2024 Our work MobiAir, on city-level drone-based crowdsourcing, got accepted by ACM MobiSys 2024 :sparkles:
Jan, 2024 Our three works on drone-based computing, edgeSLAM2, EventBoost, and TransformLoc, got accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2024 :sparkles:
Dec, 2023 Invited to serve as Poster/Demo Co-Chair and Publication Co-Chair of ACM HotMobile 2024
Dec, 2023 Our work RF-Diffusion got accepted by ACM MobiCom 2024 with shepherding :sparkles:
Aug, 2023 Our work BioDrone got accepted by ACM MobiCom 2023 :sparkles:
Jun, 2023 Invited to serve on the TPC of EAI MobiQuitous 2023 and IEEE ICPADS 2023.
Mar, 2023 ACM SIGCOMM China Doctoral Dissertation Award :tada:

Representative Publications

Full Publications

2024

  1. edgeSLAM.webp
    Edge Assisted Mobile Visual SLAM
    Jingao Xu, Zheng Yang, Yunhao Liu, and Hao Cao
    Springer Book, ISBN: 978-981-97-3572-3, 2024

2026

  1. ACM EuroSys
    E-Cube: Event Enhanced Efficient Video Streaming for Drones
    Jingao Xu, Longfei Shangguan, Danyang Li, Yunhao Liu, and Zheng Yang
    In Proceedings of the ACM EuroSys, 2026
  2. Count Every Rotation and Every Rotation Counts: Exploring Drone Dynamics via Propeller Sensing
    Xuecheng Chen*Jingao Xu*, Wenhua Ding, Haoyang Wang, Xinyu Luo, Ruiyang Duan, Jialong Chen, Xueqian Wang, Yunhao Liu, and Xinlei Chen
    In Proceedings of the ACM SenSys, 2026

2025

  1. TerraSLAM: Towards GPS-Denied Localization
    Jingao Xu, Mihir Bala, Thomas Eiszler, Xiangliang Chen, Qifei Dong, Aditya Chanana, Padmanabhan Pillai, and Mahadev Satyanarayanan
    In Proceedings of the ACM MobiSys, 2025

2023

  1. Taming Event Cameras with Bio-inpired Architecture and Algorithm: A Case for Drone Obstacle Avoidance
    Jingao Xu, Danyang Li, Zheng Yang, Yishujie Zhao, Hao Cao, Yunhao Liu, and Longfei Shangguan
    In Proceedings of the ACM MobiCom, 2023

2022

  1. SwarmMap: Scaling Up Real-time Collaborative Visual SLAM at the Edge
    Jingao Xu, Hao Cao, Zheng Yang, Longfei Shangguan, Jialin Zhang, Xiaowu He, and Yunhao Liu
    In Proceedings of the USENIX NSDI, 2022