Xuesu Xiao

Xuesu Xiao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University. Xuesu (Prof. XX) directs the RobotiXX lab, in which researchers (XX-Men and XX-Women) and robots (XX-Bots) work together at the intersection of motion planning and machine learning with a specific focus on developing highly capable and intelligent mobile robots that are robustly deployable in the real world with minimal human supervision. Xuesu’s work has been deployed in real-world robot field missions, including search and rescue effort in the Mexico City earthquake and the Greece refugee crisis, decommissioning effort in the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and multiple search and rescue exercises in the US. Xuesu’s research has been featured by The New York Times, InDro Robotics, Google AI Blog, Clearpath Robotics, IEEE Spectrum, US Army, Robotics Business Review, Tech Briefs, NSF Science Nation, WIRED, and KBTX-TV. Xuesu has been awarded George Mason University Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence in Research and College of Engineering and Computing 2025 Faculty Excellence Award for Research. 

Research Interests

• Field Robotics
• Motion Planning
• Machine Learning

Degrees

• PhD, Computer Science, Texas A&M University
• MS, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
• BS, Mechatronics Engineering, FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Germany & Tongji University, China