Xiao Lab

Lab members

Bei Xiao, PHD. Lab Head.

Provost Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science. American University.

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Vatanak Lavan, Third-year PhD Student. Behavior, Cognition, and Neuroscience Graduate Program.

EEG Decoding of Human Material Perception.

BS. Computer Science. Kean University.

Yijin Wang, Second-year PhD Student. Behavior, Cognition, and Neuroscience Graduate Program.

MS. Applied Psychology, South China Normal University

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Vincent Graham. Graduate Research Assistant. Department of Computer Science.

Novel View Synthesis with Gaussian Splatting

MS. Data Science, American University. B.S. Case Western Reserve University

Starting PHD Program at INRIA, France from September 1, 2026

Lab Alumni

- - Chenxi Liao, PhD in neuroscience, 2026. PhD Thesis: PROBING VISUAL PERCEPTION OF MATERIALS
  - WITH PSYCHOPHYSICS AND DEEP LEARNING. Currently Postdoc Researcher at University of Minnesota.
  - Yu-yu Chen, Data Science Graduate Capstone student, 2024-2025, American University
  - Michael Reinisch, Visiting Master's Student, University of Graz, Austria. Currently an Imagineer at Walter Disney Imagineering, Paris.
  - Jianfeng He, Collaborating PhD student, Virginia Tech. Currently Research Scientist at Amazon.
  - Jesse Schwarz, Undergraduate RA, 2021-2023. Currently a PhD student in CS at George Mason University.
  - Gaurav Kumar, Summer Research Intern from IIT India. Currently Member of Technical Staff, Decagon.
  - Marty Jiffer, Summer Research Intern from the University of Chicago. Currently Cybertechnology Specialist at Darktrace.
  - Laysa Hedjar, PhD student in neuroscience. Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Giessen University, Germany.
  - Evan Jeing, Undergraduate RA. Currently working at North East Medical Services, California.
  - Wenyan, Bi, PhD in neuroscience, 2019. PhD Thesis: VISUAL INFERENCE OF MATERIAL PROPERTIES OF DEFORMABLE OBJECTS IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS. Current Faculty at: Zhongguancun Institute of Artificial Intelligence. Zho
  - Audery (George) Gu, Undergraduate RA, Contemporary and Emerging Media. Currently a designer, Playground.
  - William Kistler, MA, Graduate RA 2014-2015. American University. Currently PhD student at UCL>
  - Simin Li. High School Student RA, Montgomery Blair High School. Machine learning. Currently undergraduate student at University of Maryland .
  - Alex Perepechko, Senior, CS & Audio Technology major, American University. Now at OST.
  - Laura Uribe, Senior, CS major, American University. Now at Adobe.
  - Yuuki Kpa, Sophomore, CS & Neuroscience double major, American University.
  - Luis Bermudez, BS, Carnegie Mellon University. Research Assistant & Scientific Programmer. Now PhD student at Clemson University.
  - Abhinav Swaminathan, Freshman, CS major, American University. Computer graphics. Currently an engineer at OpenAI.
  - Eric Whipp, Senior, Computer Science. Haptic device and VR.

Collaborators

Over the years, Our lab has been very fortunate to work together and learn from a big group of collaborators:

- Yuhao Zhu, University of Rochester
- Roland Fleming, Giessen University
- Masataka Sawayama, Hokkaido University
- Jianfeng He, Virginia Tech, Amazon
- Hendrikje Nienborg, NIH/NEI
- Maarten Wijntjes, TU Delft
- Ted Adelson, MIT
- Ruth Rosentholtz, MIT
- Kavita Bala, Cornell
- Todd Zickler, Harvard
- Bruce Walter, Cornell
- Ioannis Gkioulekas, CMU
- Katie Bouman, Caltech
- Lavanya Sharan, Netflix
- Derya Akkayanak, Princeton
- Shuang Zhao, UC Irvine
- Xiaodan Jia, Apple
- Alex Wade, University of York, UK
- David Brainard, University of Pennsylvania

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