Scholar
Dongkuan (DK) Xu
Google Scholar ID: 2mJ7jpcAAAAJ
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, North Carolina State University
Citations & Impact
Citations
4,894
H-index
23
i10-index
43
Publications
20
Co-authors
9
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- AAAI Best Demonstration Award 2025
- Best Poster Award at AAAI 2025 Spring Symposium on GenAI@Edge
- AAAI New Faculty Highlights 2025
- NVIDIA Academic Grant Program Award 2025
- Microsoft Accelerating Foundation Models Research Award 2024
- NCSU Carla Savage Award 2024
- Best Paper Award Runner-Up at IEEE IPCCC 2024
- Best Paper Award at ICCCN 2023
- Papers accepted to top venues: ACL'25, IROS'25 (oral), IJCV, SSDBM'25, IEEE Communications Magazine
- AI-based single-molecule imaging denoising work featured as cover article in Analytical Chemistry
- Co-PI of $1M NSF ExLENT grant
- Recipient of DELTA Grants award for educational LLM agent research
Research Experience
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at NC State University
- Leads the GIC Lab focusing on generative AI and agentic systems
- Participates in the MARINA research initiative (AI + ocean science)
- Led development of Synthora and Gentopia AI platforms
- Co-PI of a $1M NSF ExLENT grant on trustworthy and scalable generative AI for education
- Awarded DELTA Grants funding to scale and evaluate trustworthy LLM agents for education
- Received internal TELS Department grant for AI-powered creative computing research
Background
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science at NC State University
- Leads the Generative Intelligent Computing (GIC) Lab
- Research focuses on machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision
- Emphasizes efficient and reliable agentic AI systems
- Involved in MARINA, an interdisciplinary initiative at the intersection of AI and ocean sciences for ocean modeling, environmental monitoring, and AI-driven scientific discovery
- Developed Synthora (an extensible full-stack optimized platform for LLM agent applications) and Gentopia (a lightweight framework for LLM-driven autonomous agents)
