Xiao Fu

Mobile Systems & Wildfire & HCI & Applied Machine Learning & AI Infrastructure

I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of Southern California (USC) in the summer of 2025. I was honored to work with Prof. Barath Raghavan in the Networked Systems Laboratory. I received my B.S. in Computer Science from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT).

My research interests include community resilience, food security, wildfire mitigation, and other disaster responses through sensing nature, building artifacts, geospatial analysis, and engaging people. This article features prior work on wildfire mitigation using a crowdsourcing platform and mapping algorithms.

During my PhD, I developed systems and analytics methods to address complex real-world challenges. My dissertation, Computational Large-Scale Landscape Mapping for Wildfire Mitigation, focused on applying mobile systems, computer vision, and ecological design for wildfire mitigation. I now work on large-scale AI infrastructure systems. Connect with me on LinkedIn to follow my work.