About
Xiao is a software engineer at Google Deepmind (2024 - present), working on instruction following in Gemini post-training. Most recently, Xiao co-led horizontal scaling of the combination of human and critic feedback (RL*F) for Gemini 2.5. The methodology was widely adopted by 400+ engineers across 50+ launches of major capabilities (see technical report).
Xiao's prior research focuses on understanding how AI increasingly mediates social exchange and its societal impact on trust. Previously, Xiao worked at Facebook Core Data Science (2018) on trust in social groups and Airbnb (2016) on trust in host profiles.
Education
Xiao holds a PhD in Information Science from Cornell (NYC campus) on Networked Trust: Computational Understanding of Interpersonal Trust Online. Xiao was fortunate to be advised by Mor Naaman, Karen Levy, Serge Belongie, and Jeff Hancock. Before moving to the U.S., Xiao completed a bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering at Peking University (2010-2014) in Beijing.Art
Xiao is passionate about the intersection of art and technology. She serves on the board of the pioneering performing arts venue National Sawdust. Additionally, she was a technical volunteer at Rhizome, aiding in digital art preservation.Contact
xm75 at cornell o edu
Seattle, WA