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Hengyu Xiao is a pioneering researcher at the forefront of artificial intelligence and automated chemistry, whose work is fundamentally reshaping how scientific discovery is conducted. His primary research areas encompass robotic AI chemists, automated chemical synthesis, and unsupervised data mining of scientific literature. Xiao's most transformative contribution is the development of the "all-round AI-Chemist," a groundbreaking robotic system that can autonomously design, synthesize, characterize, and test new materials—a concept that has garnered over 163 citations. In a landmark achievement, he demonstrated the automated synthesis of oxygen-producing catalysts from Martian meteorites using this robotic AI chemist, a feat with profound implications for space exploration and in situ resource utilization, cited over 114 times. Beyond physical automation, Xiao has advanced the field of scientific data mining with his unsupervised syntactic distance analysis (SDA) approach, enabling the efficient, label-free extraction of chemical knowledge from vast scientific literature. By integrating robotics with machine learning, Xiao is not just automating tasks but creating a new paradigm for scientific research, where AI systems can independently hypothesize, experiment, and learn, dramatically accelerating the pace of discovery in chemistry and materials science.