About me

I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas, advised by Prof. Yunhui Guo.

Prior to that, I earned an M.S. in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, following a B.S. in Mathematics from Southeast University.

My research interests lie in Machine Learning and Computer Vision. Specifically, I focus on Generative AI, Large Vision–Language Models, and Active Learning.

My Chinese name is 徐鸥旸.

Contact

Email: [firstname].[lastname] [AT] utdallas.edu

Publication

Inconsistency-Based Data-Centric Active Open-Set Annotation
Ruiyu Mao, Ouyang Xu, Yunhui Guo
AAAI 2024

@misc{mao2024inconsistency,
    title={Inconsistency-Based Data-Centric Active Open-Set Annotation},
    author={Ruiyu Mao and Ouyang Xu and Yunhui Guo},
    year={2024},
    eprint={2401.04923},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.LG},
    url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04923},
}

SafeFix: Targeted Model Repair via Controlled Image Generation (Under Review)
Ouyang Xu, Baoming Zhang, Ruiyu Mao, Yunhui Guo
Submitted to AAAI 2026

@misc{xu2025safefix,
   title={SafeFix: Targeted Model Repair via Controlled Image Generation}, 
   author={Ouyang Xu and Baoming Zhang and Ruiyu Mao and Yunhui Guo},
   year={2025},
   eprint={2508.08701},
   archivePrefix={arXiv},
   primaryClass={cs.CV},
   url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08701}, 
}

Personal

In my spare time, I love powerlifting🏋️, bouldering🧗, and playing the guitar🎸. I am also quite skilled at board games such as Werewolves🐺.