Luyao Xia is a visiting PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Auckland from 2022. Meanwhile, he is also a current PhD candidate in Control Science and Engineering at Tongji University. His research focuses on product assembly quality detection with 3D segmentation combined with graph embedding of assembly knowledge.

During his Master and PhD, Luyao participated in several projects founded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Major Program and some prestigious companies such as Shanghai Huayi Group, Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd. and Shanghai Qnode Technology Co., Ltd.