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Xiangbo Gao

I love to use deep learning to solve real-world problems.

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About me

Autonomous Driving | Multi-agent Collaborative Perception | Aerial & Grounded Agent Cooperation | Current PhD @ TAMU | MS @ Umich | BS @ UCI

  • Location:Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
  • Age:25
  • Nationality:China
  • Interests:Skiing, Rock climbing
  • Study:Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Publications

Selected

STAMP: Scalable Task- And Model-agnostic Collaborative Perception

Xiangbo Gao, Runsheng Xu, Jiachen Li, Ziran Wang, Zhiwen Fan, Zhengzhong Tu

ICLR 2025

STAMP is a new framework for multi-agent collaborative perception in autonomous driving that enables diverse vehicles to share sensor data efficiently. Using adapter-reverter pairs to convert between agent-specific and shared feature formats in Bird`s Eye View, it achieves better accuracy than existing methods while reducing computational costs and maintaining security across heterogeneous systems.

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MambaST: A Plug-and-Play Cross-Spectral Spatial-Temporal Fuser for Efficient Pedestrian Detection

Xiangbo Gao, Asiegbu Miracle Kanu-Asiegbu, Xiaoxiao Du

ITSC 2024

MambaST is a new framework for pedestrian detection that combines RGB and thermal camera data while leveraging temporal information. It uses a novel Multi-head Hierarchical Patching and Aggregation structure with state space models to efficiently process multi-spectral data, achieving better results on small-scale detection while being more computationally efficient than transformer-based approaches.

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Scale-free and Task-agnostic Attack: Generating Photo-realistic Adversarial Patterns with Patch Quilting Generator

Xiangbo Gao, Cheng Luo, Qinliang Lin, Weicheng Xie, Minmin Liu, Linlin Shen, Keerthy Kusumam, Siyang Song

ICASSP 2024

PQ-GAN is a novel scale-free generator for adversarial attacks that works on images of any size. Unlike previous methods limited to local or fixed-scale attacks, it demonstrates superior transferability, defense resistance, and visual quality when tested against other attack methods on ImageNet and CityScapes datasets.

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Sample Hardness Based Gradient Loss for Long-Tailed Cervical Cell Detection

Minmin Liu, Xuechen Li, Xiangbo Gao, Junliang Chen, Linlin Shen, Huisi Wu

MICCAI 2022

A new Grad-Libra Loss method improves cancer cell detection in imbalanced cervical cancer datasets by adjusting for both sample difficulty and category distribution, achieving 7.8% better accuracy than standard approaches.

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On Submission

AutoTrust: Benchmarking Trustworthiness in Large Vision Language Models for Autonomous Driving

Shuo Xing, Hongyuan Hua, Xiangbo Gao, Shenzhe Zhu, Renjie Li, Kexin Tian, Xiaopeng Li, Heng Huang, Tianbao Yang, Zhangyang Wang, Yang Zhou, Huaxiu Yao, Zhengzhong Tu

Arxiv

AutoTrust is a groundbreaking benchmark designed to assess the trustworthiness of DriveVLMs. This work aims to enhance public safety by ensuring DriveVLMs operate reliably across critical dimensions.

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Resume

Education

Computer Science Ph.D. Candidate

Texas A&M University2025.1 - Present

Robotics M.S. Student

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor2023.9 - 2024.12

B.S. in Computer Science | B.S. in Mathematics

University of California, Irvine2018.9 - 2023.3

Summer Session

University of California, Berkeley2019.6 - 2019.9

Employment

Graduate Research Assistant

TACO Group @ Texas A&M University2025.1 - Present

Graduate Research Assistant

Map and Motion Lab @ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor2024.7 - 2024.12

Graduate Research Assistant

UM Ford Center for Autonomous Vehicles (FCAV)2023.12 - 2024.6

Perception Research Intern

Anhui Cowa ROBOT Co., Ltd, Shanghai, China2023.4 - 2023.7

Full-stack Software developer

Tandll Investment Management Limited, China2020.6 - 2020.8

VR Software developer

Calit 2, University of California, Irvine2019.2 - 2019.7

Competitions

CVPR Camera-based online HD map construction challenge 2023

N/A2023.5

Result: Rank 13th in CVPR Camera-based online HD map construction challenge 2023

UCI 2020 Machine Learning Hackathon

University of California, Irvine, CA, USA2020.4

1st place on the subproject of 3D Human Pose with Scene Constraints

Google Hash Code 2020 Algorithms Competition

Irvine, CA2020.2

Result: 2nd place / 13 at UCI | Team name: ε=.99

Netease Hackathon Competition

China2020.6

Outstanding Award