I’m an incoming graduate student at MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) and currently a fourth-year undergraduate student at Tsinghua University. Click here to view my up-to-date CV, updated in 2025/5/2.

Research Interests

• LLM Alignment
• Dynamic Control
• Traffic Prediction

News

• Apr, 2025: I am excited to join MIT IDSS as a master student in Fall 2025.

• Jan, 2025: Our new paper “Pareto Control Barrier Function for Inner Safe Set Maximization Under Input Constraints” was accepted for presentation at American Control Conference (ACC) 2025.

• Oct, 2024: Our new paper “Virtual Nodes Improve Long-term Traffic Prediction “ was accepted for presentation at TRB Annual Meeting 2025.

Publication

• Xiaoyang Cao, Zhe Fu, Alexandre M. Bayen, Pareto Control Barrier Function for Inner Safe Set Maximization Under Input Constraints, American Control Conference, 2025. arXiv slide

• Xiaoyang Cao, Dingyi Zhuang, Shenhao Wang, Jinhua Zhao, Virtual Nodes Improve Long-term Traffic Prediction, Transportation Research Board, 2025. arXiv slide