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I don't know when I can graduate, but I'm open to positions in SLAM, AR/VR, Robotics and other relevant areas. Please feel free to send me an email ([email protected]). Thank you!

• Ph.D. Candidate, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Sept. 2021 – now )

• Master's Degree in Software Engineering at Beihang University (Sept. 2018 – Feb. 2021)

• Bachelor's Degree in Detection Guidance and Control Technology at North University of China (Sept. 2013 – Jul. 2017)

• Visiting Ph.D student (Supervisor: Prof. Steven L. Waslander)
  • Toronto Robotics and AI Laboratory, U of T (Mar. 2025 – Aug. 2025)
  • Long-term Localization and Ill-conditioned point cloud registration
  • Open-vocabulary Instance Segmentation and Scene Graph Generation
• Ph.D candidate (Supervisor: Prof. Ping Tan)
  • Von Neumann Institute, Robotics Institute, HKUST (Feb. 2024 – now)
  • LiDAR-based Localization and Multi-session Mapping
  • Uncertainty Estimation
• Ph.D student (Supervisor: Prof. Ming Liu)
  • Robotics Institute, Intelligent Autonomous Driving Center (IADC), HKUST (Sept. 2021 – Jan. 2024)
  • Large-scale outdoor mapping and localization for autonomous driving
• Research Intern (Supervisor: Prof. Dongbin Zhao)
  • Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (Apr. 2019 – Nov. 2019)
  • Multi-sensor fusion for localization and mapping in campus environments

I have had the privilege to collaborate with talented researchers:

• Prof. Jin Wu, Dr. Jianhao Jiao, Mr. Linwei Zheng, Mr. Hexiang Wei, Mr.Zuhao Zou, Dr. Huaiyang Huang, Dr. Zhenhua Xu

1. X. Hu, J. Wu et al. "MS-Mapping: An Uncertainty-Aware Large-Scale Multi-Session LiDAR Mapping System," arXiv. arXiv:2408.03723
2. X. Hu, J. Wu et al. "MapEval: Towards Unified, Robust, and Efficient SLAM Map Evaluation Framework," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), Feb. 2025. DOI:10.1109/LRA.2025.3548441
3. X. Hu*, J. Wu* et al. "AM-Align: Globally Optimal Estimation of Accelerometer-Magnetometer Misalignment," IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (T-IM), Sept. 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2025.3541657
4. X. Hu, L. Zheng et al. "PALoc: Advancing SLAM Benchmarking With Prior-Assisted 6-DoF Trajectory Generation and Uncertainty Estimation," IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (T-MECH), vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 4297-4308, Dec. 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2024.3362902
5. J. Jiao*, H. Wei*, T. Hu*, X. Hu* et al. "FusionPortable: A Multi-Sensor Campus-Scene Dataset for Localization and Mapping Accuracy Evaluation," IROS 2022, pp. 3851-3856, Kyoto, Japan. DOI: 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9982119
6. H. Wei*, J. Jiao*,X. Hu, et al. "FusionPortableV2: A Unified Multi-Sensor Dataset for Generalized SLAM Across Diverse Platforms and Scalable Environments," The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR). DOI: 10.1177/02783649241303525

Key repository from my PhD research process, containing SLAM tools, paper figure plotting scripts, dataset processing scripts, and more.