About

Xiao Fu
Mobile Systems & Wildfire
I am a Ph.D. Candidate of Computer Science at University of Southern California (USC). I'm 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 a prior work on wildfire mitigation with crowdsensing platform and mapping algorithms.
- System & Sensing Fire Mapping, Avalanche Search & Rescue, Sensing for Sustainability
- Sustainability Edible Fire Breaks, Food Security, Wildfire Mitigation Optimization
- Human-Computer Interaction Sustainable HCI, Community resilience
Selected Publications
Wildfire
Edible fire buffers: mitigation of wildfire with multifunctional landscapes
Xiao Fu, Abigail Lidar, Michael Kantar, and Barath Raghavan
PNAS Nexus, October 2023
System
FireLoc: Low-latency Multi-modal Wildfire Geolocation
Xiao Fu, Yue Hu, Prashanth Sutrave, Peter A. Beerel, and Barath Raghavan
ACM SenSys, Nov 2024
Teaching
USC CSCI 567: Machine Learning
2024 Spring, 2024 Fall, 2025 Spring
Teaching Assistant
Experience
Meta
Software Engineer, PhD Intern
May 2024 - Aug 2024
University of Minnesota, GEMS Sensing
Visiting Fellow
May 2022 - Oct 2022