Xiaomin Lin Assistant Professor University of South Florida Electrical Engineering, Computer Science (Affiliated) AI + X Institute (Researcher) [LinkedIn] [Google Scholar] [cv] [ResearchGate] [dblp] [ORCID]

🔥 About Me

I am a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Electrical and Engineering, holding Affiliated Appointment with Bellini College of AI(Computer Science). At USF, I am expanding research in Edge AI, perception enabled robotics, and intelligent systems for challenging environments, including underwater, agricultural, and healthcare domains.

I lead the new ERA Lab (Embodied Robotics and Autonomy) focusing on robotics, multimodal perception, and AI for challenging environments.

🌱🌟 I am actively recruiting PhD students to join my lab starting Fall 2025 and Spring 2026. I also welcome collaboration in robotics, AI, edge computing, and medical or underwater applications.

📬 If you are interested, please email me after reading my Research Statement pdf with the subject line [Interested in Joining ERA Lab USF].

I received my PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland advised by Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos. My research lies at the intersection of robotics and perception, with emphasis on autonomous underwater systems. I build frameworks for autonomous underwater vehicles to detect and map marine objects such as oyster beds and coral reefs using real and synthetic data, simulation based methods, and multimodal sensing.

I am working with the Energy Efficient High Performance Computing Lab (EEHPC) at Johns Hopkins University directed by Dr. Tinoosh Mohsenin. I have expanded my focus to integrating Large Language Models with knowledge graphs for advanced reasoning and decision making, and building efficient algorithms and frameworks for deployment on edge devices and robotics.

Current Research Areas

• Multimodal Sensing for General Robotics
• Synthetic Data Generation and Digital Twin
• Edge AI for Robotics and Healthcare
• Long Term Autonomous Environmental Monitoring for Restoration and Aquaculture
• Large Language Models for Robotics Reasoning

🤝 Collaboration

I collaborate widely across marine robotics and AI, including Prof. Shahriar Negahdaripour Miami, Prof. Ioannis Rekleitis Delaware, Prof. Leonardo Bobadilla Florida International University, Dr. Nare Karapetyan WHOI, Dr. Marios Xanthidis SINTEF Ocean, Dr. Yewei Huang Dartmouth College, and Prof. Jane Shine Florida.

I also work with collaborators across biology, computing, and robotics such as Dr. Isla Duporge Princeton, Prof. Kevin Boswell FIU, and Prof. Dongyi Wang Arkansas.

In Maryland, I have collaborated with Prof. Matthew Gray UMCES, Prof. Miao Yu, Prof. Nikhil Chopra.

At the 2024 Autonomous Systems Bootcamp, I led a team from eight institutions and companies, resulting in a joint publication on the Odyssee project [Odyssee] as lead and corresponding author.

🔥 News

• 2025.9.21 Talk at Rutgers University New Brunswick, AI for Health workshop.
• 2025.8.7 Officially joined University of South Florida as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering.
• 2025.5.21 Honored by the Institute for Systems Research for PhD achievements and contributions to robotics and underwater ecosystem monitoring.
• 2025.5.19 to 2025.5.24 Attending ICRA 2025.
• 2025.5.5 Talk at University of Central Florida in Computer Science and in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• 2025.4.2 Talk in AI for Engineering and Scientific Discoveries at the 2025 AAAI Spring Symposium Series.
• 2025.2.27 Talk at University of South Florida in Electrical Engineering.
• 2025.2.24 Presentation at Virginia Tech in Aerospace and Ocean Engineering.
• 2025.2.21 Talk at The Catholic University of America in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
• 2025.2.19 Talk at UMBC in EECS.
• 2025.1 Program Committee for AAAI 2025 Spring Symposium Series Gen AI at Edge.
• 2024.12 Joined EEHPC Lab at Johns Hopkins University with Dr. Tinoosh Mohsenin.
• 2024.10 Award for best control framework in autonomous navigation and control at the IROS workshop, Abu Dhabi.
• 2023.05 Best Poster Award at the Maryland Robotics Center Research Symposium.

Recognition

ISR Honors 2025 Graduate Achievements · May 2025
University of Maryland, College Park 🌐

Postdoctoral Fellow · Jan 2025 to Aug 2025
Institute for Assured Autonomy, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University 🌐

Best Paper Award · Oct 2024
Autonomous Robotic Systems in Aquaculture Workshop, Abu Dhabi, IROS 🌐

Best Poster Award · May 2023
Maryland Robotics Center (MRC) Research Symposium 🌐

Service

• Associate Editor, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2025 to present
• Program Committee, AAAI 2025 Spring Symposium Series, 2025
• Reviewer, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022 to present
• Reviewer, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2022 to present
• Reviewer, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2022 to present

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