Bio
Xu Cao is a CS PhD Candidate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. James M. Rehg and Prof. Jimeng Sun. Driven by his personal history as a former pediatric rare disease patient, Xu co-founded PediaMed AI to advance AI technologies specifically for pediatrics. His research lies at the intersection of Vision Language Models (VLMs), Agentic AI, Social Embodied AI. In the meanwhile, Xu also focus on developing applications such as AR smart glasses and Pediatrics Foundation Models.