Xiao is currently a software engineer at Google Deepmind (2024 - present), working on instruction following in Gemini post-training. Most recently, Xiao led the development of a novel reinforcement learning method for Gemini 2.0 that leverages self-critique and reasoning, leading to improved safety without sacrificing quality.
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.
xm75 at cornell o edu
Seattle, WA