Xiaoyu Wang (pronounced "shaw yoo")

Ph.D. Student

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Email: xwang2696@wisc.edu

Google Scholar Resume(2025.3) Linkedin Github

About Me

I am a Ph.D. student (2023.1-) at the Biological System Engineering of University of Wisconsin-Madison. I received my Bachelor's degree (2017-2021) at the Xi'an Jiaotong University.

My current research interests include remote sensing, machine learning, and ai4science.

Education

Ph.D University of Wisconsin-Madison, Biological System Engineering, 2023.1 ~

Minor in Computer Science
Courses: 533(Image Processing); 760(Machine Learning); 759(High Performance Computing for Applications in Engineering)

B.S. Xi'an Jiaotong University, Computer Science and Technology, 2017 ~ 2021

Experience

Microsoft Research Asia, Media Computing Group, 2021.4 ~ 2022.4, supervised by Xiangyu Kong and Xiulian Peng
Intership, research on audio-visual speech separation project

Sensetime , Autonomous driving Group, 2020.9 ~ 2021.3, supervised by Guohang Yan and Tao Ma
Intership, working on autonomous driving (sensor calibration)

Nanyang Technological University , 2020.9 ~ 2021.3, supervised by Tao Bai and Jun Zhao
Intership, research on federated learning and adversarial learning project

INNNO , 2019.9 ~ 2020.2
Intership, working on land cover change detection (semantic segmentation) project

Xi'an Jiaotong University , 2018 ~ 2020, supervised by Jinsong Han and Jinjun Wang
Research Assistant, research on GAN, federated learning and privacy project 1 project 2

Publications

Journal

Learning county from pixels: Corn yield prediction with attention-weighted multiple instance learning
Xiaoyu Wang, Yuchi Ma, Qunying Huang, Zhengwei Yang, Zhou Zhang
International Journal of Remote Sensing (IJRS), 2025
pdf poster slides

Conferences

Knowledge-guided machine learning model with soil moisture for corn yield prediction under drought conditions
Zhengwei Yang, Xiaoyu Wang, Jingyi Huang, Zhou Zhang
IGARSS 2024-2025 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2025
pdf

County Level Crop Yield Prediction Using Smap Derived Data Products and Deep Learning Model
Zhengwei Yang, Xiaoyu Wang, Jingyi Huang, Zhou Zhang
IGARSS 2023-2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2024
pdf

Multi-modal multi-correlation learning for audio-visual speech separation
Xiaoyu Wang, Xiangyu Kong, Xiulian Peng, Yan Lu
Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech), 2022
pdf slides talk poster

A data-free approach for targeted universal adversarial perturbation
Xiaoyu Wang, Tao Bai, Jun Zhao
International Conference on Science of Cyber Security (SciSec), 2021
pdf

Preprint

Knowledge-guided machine learning model with soil moisture for corn yield prediction under drought conditions
Xiaoyu Wang, Yijia Xu, Jingyi Huang, Zhengwei Yang, Zhou Zhang
Submitted to
pdf slides

Teaching experiences

2026 Fall BSE 301, Land Information Management, University of Wisconsin–Madison
The slides designed by me:
2025 Spring BSE 405, Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture, University of Wisconsin–Madison
The experiment case study designed by me: 1 2-1 2-2 3

Grants

BSE Travel Award of UW-Madison, 2025. ($1000)

Awards & Honors

Stars of Tomorrow Excellent Intern Award, Microsoft Research Asia, 2021.
Third class award of Xi'an Jiaotong University (top 20%), 2018.

Professional Services

Journal Reviewer

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (JAG)

Former advisees

Mingda Wu (University of Wisconsin–Madison -> PhD, UT Austin), 2025

Atticus Yang (The University of Chicago ->MS, The University of Chicago), 2024

Hobby

My Weightlifting gallery