Xincao (Neil) Xu (Chinese character 许新操 or 許新操) is currently an Associate Researcher in computer science with the Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Study, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Shenzhen, China. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the College of Computer Science, Chongqing University (CQU), Chongqing, China, in 2023. From 2023 to 2025, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Study, UESTC. His research interests include edge intelligence, agentic AI, and agentic RL. He has authored and co-authored more than 15 papers with total google scholar . He received the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award from the Asia-Pacific Association of Cognitive Intelligence in 2025, the Best Paper Award from the IEEE International Symposium on Product Compliance Engineering-Asia in 2018, and multiple Best Paper Finalist honors. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, CCF, CIE, CAAI, CAA, and several other professional societies. He has served as principal investigator on projects funded by the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and has also participated in several National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) general projects and Shenzhen Science and Technology Program initiatives. His full academic CV can be found here: [ zh-CN ] [ en-US ]

🔥 News

🔈 Call for Students

Dr. Xu is now recruiting highly motivated undergraduate and Master’s students to join our research group. If you are passionate about cutting-edge technologies in edge intelligence, agent artificial intelligence, and agentic reinforcement learning, we encourage you to apply!

🎯 We Offer

1. Respect for students’ interests in determining research directions, with full support provided to the greatest extent possible.
2. Weekly group meetings to ensure steady progress and effective collaboration.
3. Guidance for publishing in top-tier conferences and journals.
4. Full support for personal academic growth and career development.

✅ We Are Looking For Students Who

• Have a background in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Automation, or related fields.
• Are proficient in programming (e.g., Python, C++).
• Possess a solid mathematical foundation (optimization, linear algebra, probability).
• Have prior experience or strong interest in edge intelligence, LLM agents, and reinforcement learning.

📧 How to Apply

Interested candidates are welcome to contact Dr. Xu via email with your CV, academic transcripts, and a brief self-introduction.

We look forward to hearing from you!

🔬 Research

🏫 Teaching

🧑‍🏫 Homeroom Teacher

1. Homeroom Teacher for STEM Education, Shenzhen Longhua S&T Experimental High School, May 2025 - May 2028.

📚 Students

1. Chun He (何春), M.S. student in Computer Scinece, co-advised with Prof. Penglin Dai in Southwest Jiaotong University, | E-mail: hechunconorATmyDOTswjtuDOTeduDOTcn
2. Zijie Zhou (周子杰), M.S. student in Computer Scinece, co-advised with Prof. Penglin Dai in Southwest Jiaotong University, | E-mail: zzj1921ATmyDOTswjtuDOTeduDOTcn
3. Lin Xiao (肖林), M.S. student in Computer Scinece, co-advised with Prof. Penglin Dai in Southwest Jiaotong University, | E-mail: xlinATmyDOTswjtuDOTeduDOTcn
4. Fulian Li (李富连), M.S. student in Computer Scinece, co-advised with Prof. Penglin Dai in Southwest Jiaotong University, | E-mail: fulianliATmyDOTswjtuDOTeduDOTcn
5. Jie Li (李杰), M.S. student in Computer Scinece, co-advised with Prof. Penglin Dai in Southwest Jiaotong University, | E-mail: li2839213997ATmyDOTswjtuDOTeduDOTcn
6. Ziqiang Ren (任自强), M.S. student in Computer Scinece, co-advised with Prof. Penglin Dai in Southwest Jiaotong University, | E-mail: 1667949917ATmyDOTswjtuDOTeduDOTcn
7. Pengju Zhang (张鹏举), Undergraduate student in Materials Science, co-advised with Prof. Penglin Dai in Southwest Jiaotong University, | E-mail: 2959876685ATqqDOTcom

🎓 Alumnus

1. Junyuan Wu (吴峻源), M.S. in Computer Science, 2025
   • Dissertation Title: “Research on Key Technologies for Resource Scheduling and Model Deployment in Vehicular Digital Twins”
   • Professional Start: Development Engineer in Autonomous Driving Simulation at Zelostech (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
   • Co-Advisor: Prof. Kai Liu, Chongqing University
   • Contact Information: | E-mail: 1024038920ATqqDOTcom

📖 Publication

JCR: Journal Citation Reports | SCI: Journal Partition List | CCF: CCF Recommended

🏆 Grants

NSFC: National Natural Science Foundation of China GBABRF: Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation SSTP: Shenzhen Science and Technology Program CPSF: China Postdoctoral Science Foundation

Principal Investigator

1. GBABRF, General Project, “Research on Key Techniques for Generative Model-based Vehicular Digital Twins”, 2025A1515012825, 100,000 CNY, Jan 2025 - Dec 2027. (top 18.8%)
2. CPSF, Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, “Research on Integrated Sensing and Communications based Vehicle-Infrastructure Cooperation System for Vehicular Digital Twin Networks”, GZC20230384, 240,000 CNY, Jan 2024 - Jun 2025. (only 58 candidates were selected in Information and Communication Engineering in 2023)
3. CPSF, General Fund, “Modeling and Optimization of Cyber-Physical System for Vehicular Edge Computing”, 2023M740515, 80,000 CNY, Jan 2024 - Jun 2025. (top 15.9%)

Participation

1. NSFC, General Project, “Computing Model Deployment and Collaborative Cross Domain Optimization for Edge Intelligence of Internet of Vehicles”, 62172064, 590,000 CNY, Jan 2022 - Dec 2025.
2. NSFC, General Project, “Research on High Performance Data Transmission and Reception Mechanism of Wireless Energy-capable Communication Network Based on Successive Interference Cancellation”, 62072064, 580,000 CNY, Jan 2021 - Dec 2024.
3. NSFC, General Project, “Research on Continuous Authentication Method and Key Technologies for Mobile Users Based on Behavioral Characteristics”, 62072061, 580,000 CNY, Jan 2021 - Dec 2024.
4. NSFC, General Project, “Research on Intelligent Multitask High-Performance Optimization Algorithms Based on Transfer Learning”, 61876025, 620,000 CNY, Jan 2019 – Dec 2022.
5. NSFC, General Project, “Research on Architecture and Protocols for Large-scale Data Services in Converged Heterogeneous Internet of Vehicles”, 61872049, 640,000 CNY, Jan 2019 – Dec 2022.
6. SSTP, Science and Technology Major Project, “Research and Development of Key Technologies for PCIe Gen6 SSD Chips Towards Enterprise-Level Applications”, KIZD20240903095401003, 5,000,000 CNY, Jan 2025 - Dec 2027.
7. SSTP, General Project, “Research on Efficient Training and Inference Methods for Cloud-Edge-Device Collaborative Deep Learning Models”, JCYJ20240813114223031, 300,000 CNY, Jan 2025 - Dec 2027.
8. Engineering Research Center of Sustainable Urban Intelligent Transportation, Ministry of Education, China, Ongoing Open Research Topics, “Research on Vehicle-Edge Collaborative Inference Technology for Empowering Traffic Safety Operations and Maintenance”, KCX2024-KF07, 20,000 CNY, Jul 2025 - Dec 2025.

✨ Others

📄 Patents

• Xincao Xu, Kai Liu, Dong Li, “A Control Plane View Construction Method for Software-Defined Vehicular Networks”, Chinese Invention Patent, ZL202110591822.1, 2022.
• Liu Kai, Zhang Lang, Xincao Xu, Ren Hualing, Zhou Yi, “An Edge Computing Based Collision Warning Method for Vehicles in Blind Areas”, Chinese Invention Patent, ZL201910418745.2, 2021.
• Ren Hualing, Liu Kai, Chen Mengliang, Zhou Yi, Xincao Xu, “A Fog Computing-based Information Acquisition, Computing, and Transmission Architecture”, Chinese Invention Patent, ZL201910146357.3, 2021.

📺 Demo

• Joint Model Caching and Inference System

• Non-Light-of-Sight (NLOS) Collision Warning System

📢 Call for Papers

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👨🏻‍💻 Experience

💼 Work

• Sep 2025 - Dec 2028 (now): Associate Researcher, Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Study, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen, China.
• Jul 2023 - Aug 2025: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Study, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen, China. In cooperation with Prof. Shaohua Wan.

🎓 Education

• Sep 2019 - Jun 2023: Ph.D. in Computer Science, College of Computer Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China. Supervised by Prof. Kai Liu.
• Sep 2017 - Jun 2019: Postgraduate student (Joined the successive postgraduate-doctor program in 2019), Computer Science, College of Computer Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China.
• Sep 2013 - Jun 2017: Bachelor in Network Engineering, College of Computer and Control Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan, China.

😎 Membership

• Jun 2025 - now: Member, China Intelligent Transportation Systems Association (ITS China).
• Jun 2025 - now: Member, China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG).
• Jun 2025 - now: Member, China Society of Automotive Engineers (China SAE).
• Jun 2025 - now: Member, Chinese Association of Automation (CAA).
• Jun 2025 - now: Member, Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI).
• May 2025 - now: Member, Asia-Pacific Association of Cognitive Intelligence (AACI).
• Apr 2025 - now: Member, Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE).
• Sep 2023 - now: Member, CCF Technical Committee of Intelligent Vehicle (CCF TCIV).
• Sep 2023 - now: Member, CCF Technical Committee of Network and Data Communication (CCF TCCOMM).
• Sep 2023 - now: Member, CCF Technical Committee of Internet of Things (CCF TCIoT).
• Sep 2023 - now: Member, China Computer Federation (CCF).
• Oct 2023 - now: Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
• Sep 2023 - now: Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
• Nov 2020 - Aug 2023: Student Member, China Computer Federation (CCF).

🤝 Services

🎤 Talks

• Asia-Pacific Association of Cognitive Intelligence, Featured Doctoral Forum Series, “Key Technologies for Dynamic Modeling and Collaborative Optimization of Vehicular Digital Twins”, May 28, 2025.（in Chinese）

📑 Program Committee Member

• CCF Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (CIVS) 2025

👀 Reviewer

Journal

• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) IF: 9.2 (2024) [JCR Q1 | SCI Q1 | CCF A] | 2025
• IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC) IF: 8.9 (2023) [JCR Q1 | SCI Q1 | CCF B] | 2025
• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS) IF: 7.9 (2023) [ JCR Q1 | SCI Q2 | CCF B ] | 2023
• IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (TCE) IF: 4.3 (2023) [ JCR Q1 | SCI Q2 ] | 2024
• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT) IF: 6.1 (2023) [ JCR Q1 | SCI Q2 ] | 2022, 2024-2025
• Computer Networks (CN) IF: 4.4 (2024) [ JCR Q1 | SCI Q3 | CCF B ] | 2025
• Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA) IF: 3.8 (2023) [ JCR Q1 | SCI Q3 | CCF B ] | 2023
• Neural Computing and Applications (NCA) IF: 4.5 (2023) [ JCR Q2 | SCI Q3 ] | 2022
• The Journal of Supercomputing (TJSC) IF: 2.5 (2023) [ JCR Q2 | SCI Q4 ] | 2022
• Journal of Computer Research and Development [CCF A] | 2023
• Tien Tzu Hsueh Pao/Acta Electronica Sinica [CCF A] | 2022-2023

Conference

• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC-Fall) | 2023
• International Conference on Artificial Intelligence of Things and Systems (AIoTSys) | 2023
• IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE ITSC) | 2022-2023
• IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM) | 2021, 2023
• International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP) | 2021
• China Conference on Internet of Things (Wireless Sensor Network) (CWSN) | 2021
• IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom) | 2020
• IEEE International Symposium on Product Compliance Engineering-Asia (IEEE ISPCE-AS) | 2020

🏆 Awards

• Asia-Pacific Association of Cognitive Intelligence (AACI) | Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award | 2025
• International Conference on Neural Computing for Advanced Applications (NCAA’20) | Best Paper Award Finalist | 2020
• China Conference on Internet of Things (Wireless Sensor Network) (CWSN’20) | Best Paper Award Finalist | 2020
• IEEE International Symposium on Product Compliance Engineering-Asia (IEEE ISPCE-AS’18) | Best Paper Award | 2018

📦 Resources

Opinions and Experiences

• Why We Block Our Path by Prof. Hui Xiong (in Chinese)

Shareable Materials

• Conference Proceedings and Journals Related to Internet of Vehicles
• Handbook for Research Beginner 01: Research Tools and Paper Reading (in Chinese)
• Handbook for Research Beginner 02: Paper Architecture and Writting (in Chinese)
• Handbook for Research Beginner 03: Patent Drafting (in Chinese)

Courses

• Introduction to Algorithms by MIT
• Meachine Learning by Prof. Hung-yi Lee
• Meachine Learning by Prof. Richard Xu
• Deep Learning by Prof. Andrew Ng
• Deep Reinforcement Learning by Dr. Shusen Wang

Books

	Meachine Learning Prof. Zhi-Hua Zhou Tsinghua University Press, 2016 ISBN: 9787302423287 🇨🇳Chinese
	Machine Learning Yearning Prof. Andrew NG Free Ebook, 2018 🇬🇧English | 🇨🇳Chinese
	Deep Learning Dr. Ian Goodfellow, Prof. Yoshua Bengio, and Prof. Aaron Courville MIT Press, 2016 ISBN: 9780262035613 🇬🇧English | 🇨🇳Chinese
	Dive into Deep Learning Dr. Aston Zhang, Dr. Zachary C. Lipton, Dr. Mu Li, and Dr. Alexander I. Smola Cambridge University Press, 2023 ISBN: 1009389432 🇬🇧English | 🇨🇳Chinese

Research

• Google Scholar: Largest Search Engine for Academic Publishing
• dblp: Computer Science Bibliography
• Conference Partner: Information about Academic Conferences
• Networking Conferences Statistics: Year-over-year Statistics for Networking Conferences
• LetPub: Information about SCI Journals
• Academic Accelerator: Wonderful Tool to Accelerate Your Scientific Research
• WikiCFP: A Wiki for Calls for Papers
• Zotero: Personal Research Assistant
• IEEE Template Selector: Find the Right IEEE Article Template for Your Target Publication

Grant

• NSFC Big Data: Official Big Data Knowledge Management Service Portal of National Natural Science Foundation
• LetPub: Scientific Fund Results Inquiry System
• NSFC Proposal Template: Unofficial LaTeX Format Template for National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant Applications
• Full Names of Related Funds: Chinese-English Comparison
• Funding, Award, and Scholarship Translation summarized by Xovee Xu

Coding

• Python Tutorial by Xuefeng Liao 🇨🇳Chinese
• Python Documentation 🇬🇧English 🇨🇳Chinese
• Python for Beginners 🇨🇳Chinese

🧩 Interests

🎵 Music

• Recently on Repeat

• Favorite Albums

The 400 Blows Sigle	Aqua Hotel Sigle	Summer Time EP	Bedazzling	Real Love Is...	David Tao	Sense+	Bye Bye That's All
Roy Wang	Roy Wang	Roy Wang	Roy Wang	The Chairs	David Tao	The Life Journey	Bad Sweetheart
2020	2020	2021	2022	2020	1997	2018	2021

• Step into his world of melodious favorites and discover a carefully curated music collection.
• Explore his Replay 2023 playlist, a journey through his most played tracks on

🎬 Movies

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	Romeo + Juliet	Moulin Rouge!	Call Me by Your Name	A Clockwork Orange
Ben Stiller	Baz Luhrmann	Baz Luhrmann	Luca Guadagnino	Stanley Kubrick
2013	1996	2001	2017	1971

🏃 Sports

Passionate about fitness, he has earned a series of accolades in his active lifestyle.

• 🍎 Apple Fitness achievements

Four-week continuous Fitness+ workout streak award	Daily Move goal reached 100 times award	50th Fitness+ Treadmill workout accomplishment	50-time winner of the 7-workouts-per-week challenge	Top cycling calorie burner award (525 Calories)	Peak calorie burn on the elliptical award (645 Calories)	Maximum calories burned running award (579 Calories)	Highest calories burned swimming award (157 Calories)
Aug 15, 2023	Nov 30, 2021	Aug 7, 2023	Sep 22, 2023	May 17, 2023	Jan 21, 2023	Aug 16, 2023	Jun 13, 2023

• 🆚 Events (PB: Personal Best)

• 🏅 Medal

Summit of Wutong Mountain	Find Your Way given by BFF	Decathlon SAKURA Cycling	Chongqing Mountain City Street & Alley Orienteering Challenge	Chongqing (Changjiahui) Half Marathon	Campus Fun Games
Jan 20, 2024	Mar 11, 2024	Mar 22, 2024	May 26, 2024	Nov 3, 2024	May 16, 2025

🎮 Gaming

His world of gaming spans across various consoles, offering endless adventures and excitement.

• Connect with him on by adding his Friend Code: SW-2057-0942-7707
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
  • The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
  • Super Smash Bros.
  • Splatoon 3
  • Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
  • Animal Crossing: New Horizons
• Nintendo Year in Review 2023

• Join him on by adding him PSN ID: near_dws
  • The Last of Us Part I
  • Final Fantasy VII Remake
  • Detroit: Become Human
  • Life is Strange 2
  • Life is Strange: True Colors

📱 Tech

His interest in digital gadgets extends to a wide range of hardwares and softwares.

Hardware

Software