I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, supervised by Professor Haoyao Chen, and pursuing a joint Ph.D. program with City University of Hong Kong under the supervision of Professor Lu Liu.

Before that, I obtained my Master’s degree in Control Science and Engineering and Bachelor’s degree in Automation from Harbin Institute of Technology.

My research interests focus on robot perception and intelligent navigation.

Education

• Ph.D. in Control Science and Engineering @NROS-Lab, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, 2024.09–present
• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Joint Program), City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2024.09–present
• M.Eng. in Control Science and Engineering @NROS-Lab, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, 2021.09-2024.06
• Minor in Data Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 2018.09-2021.06
• B.Eng. in Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 2017.09-2021.06

Publications

• SAIN: Structure-Aware Interactive Navigation with Active Dialogue Grounding for Mobile Robot
  Yuhao Cao, Xiao Liu, Yang Xie, Lu Liu, Haoyao Chen
  arXiv, 2026
• Air-Ground Robotic Collaborative Reconstruction by Cross-View Depth Completion in Large-Scale Environment
  Yike Wu, Jidong Huang, Xiao Liu, Yuwei Li, Haoyao Chen
  IROS, 2026
• RGB-Thermal Visual Place Recognition via Vision Foundation Model
  Minghao Ye, Xiao Liu, Yu Wang, Lu Liu, Haoyao Chen
  IROS, 2025
• Terrain-Adaptive Planning of a Mobile Robot With a Multiaxis Gimbal System for Stable SLAM
  Zhihao Wang, Minghang Li, Xiao Liu, Yu Wang, Yiming Liu, Haoyao Chen
  Transactions on Field Robotics, 2025
• Contrastive Learning-Based Attribute Extraction Method for Enhanced Terrain Classification
  Xiao Liu, Hongjin Chen, Haoyao Chen
  ICRA, 2024
• Hierarchical Adaptive Voxel-guided Sampling for Real-time Applications in Large-scale Point Clouds
  Junyuan Ouyang, Xiao Liu, Haoyao Chen
  arXiv, 2023

Honors & Awards

• Champion (Team Leader), ATEC2026 Online Competition, 2026
• Champion (Team Leader), 2nd CMU Vision-Language-Autonomy Challenge, IROS 2025
• 4th Place (Team Leader), 3rd Meituan Low-Altitude Economy Flight Management Challenge, 10,000RMB Scholarship, IROS 2025
• Champion, 2nd Meituan Low-Altitude Economy Flight Management Challenge, 100,000RMB Scholarship, 2024
• Outstanding Graduate of Heilongjiang Province, 2024
• ETHz Robotics Summer School, 2023
• Outstanding Graduate of HIT, 2021
• Third-Class Award, RoboMaster University AI Challenge (RMUA), 2021
• Second-Class Award, ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest (Robocon), 2021
• National Third Place, First-Class Award, ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest (Robocon), 2020
• Provincial First Prize in China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2019
• University of Florida Robotics Summer School, 2019