Hi, I'm Yao Xiao (肖尧) 👋, currently a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science and the National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Intelligence at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and a joint Ph.D. student in the Department of Data Science at City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK). I am advised by Prof. Tong Xu and Prof. Xiangyu Zhao.

My research mainly focuses on Multimodal Learning, Large Language Models, and Mechanism Interpretability. I am interested in understanding and building reliable, interpretable, and adaptive AI systems.

Multimodal Learning Large Language Models Mechanism Interpretability

You can find more information related to my research on my Google Scholar homepage.

📢 News

2024.10
One paper is accepted by TAFFC, 2024.
2023.06
One paper is accepted by ICIC, 2023.

📖 Educations

📝 Publications

Nat Comput Sci 2026
Spatial Epigenomics

Denoising spatial epigenomic data via deep matrix factorization

Shuyan Wang, Hao Xu, Junyu Wang, Yao Xiao, Shanghao Dai, Junyi Lu, Ruoxuan Cao, Xuejin Chen, Kun Qu.

2026 Nature Computational Science, 6(2), 208–220

Denoising spatial epigenomic data via deep matrix factorization.

TAFFC 2024
Music Emotion

An Efficient Bi-modal Fusion Framework for Music Emotion Recognition

Yao Xiao, Haoxin Ruan, Xujian Zhao, Peiquan Jin, Li Tian, Xuebo Cai, Yixin Wang, Liang Liu.

2024 IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing

An efficient bi-modal fusion framework for music emotion recognition.

ICIC 2023
Self-Attention

Music emotion recognition using multi-head self-attention-based models

Yao Xiao, Haoxin Ruan, Xujian Zhao, Peiquan Jin, Xuebo Cai.

2023 International Conference on Intelligent Computing

Music emotion recognition using multi-head self-attention-based models.

🤝 Academic Services

Reviewer
ACM Computing Surveys (IF: 30.4)
Artificial Intelligence Review (IF: 18.8)
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (IF: 11.3)
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (IF: 10.7)
Scientific Reports (IF: 4.9)
International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (IF: 4.0)
Multimedia Systems (IF: 2.8)

🏆 Honors and Awards

2026
First-Class Scholarship of USTC
2025
First-Class Scholarship of USTC
2024
First-Class Scholarship of USTC
2023
AnHeng Scholarship