Xu Zheng

About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in AI Thrust at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Guangzhou campus. I am delighted in working with Xuming Hu @ HKUST and Raymond Chi-Wing Wong @ HKUST. I am a Resident Doctoral Researcher at INSAIT, under the supervision of Prof. Luc Van Gool and Dr. Danda Paudel. Recently, I also collaborate with Linfeng Zhang @ SJTU and Kailun Yang @ HNU. Previously, I worked closely with Addison Lin Wang @ NTU and got my B.Eng and M.Eng degrees at Northeastern University under the supervision of Chong Fu @ NEU.

I study machine perception, reasoning, and interaction with the physical world, drawing inspiration from human cognition. Lately, I’ve been focusing on multi-modal large models and advanced sensing & perception techniques.

News

2025.02: Visit INSAIT as a Resident Doctoral Researcher! Linkin

2025.01: Successfully passed PhD Qualifying Examination!

2024.12: Invited as an Area Chair of PDLM @ AAAI 2025.

2024.10: One paper accepted to IEEE TPAMI

2024.10: Oral presentation @ ECCV 2024 Oral Session 5A: Segmentation [video]

2024.09: One paper accepted to Pattern Recognition

2024.07: Three papers (one Oral (1.5%)) accepted to ECCV 2024

2024.03: One paper accepted to IEEE CAI 2024

2024.03: One paper accepted to Pattern Recognition

2024.03: Five papers (one Highlight (2.8%)) accepted to CVPR 2024

2024.02: Two papers accepted to ICRA 2024

2023.07: Two papers accepted to ICCV 2023

2023.03: One paper accepted to CVPR 2023

Mentorship

I am honored to have mentored the following junior students:

✉️ Welcome to contact me for any discussion and cooperation!

Internships and Working Experiences

[Feb. 2025 ‑ present], Resident Doctoral Researcher, INSAIT, Sofia University
- Supervisor: Luc Van Gool, Danda Paudel
[Oct. 2021 ‑ Oct. 2024], Research Assistant, VLISLAB, HKUST
- Supervisor: Addison Lin Wang
[Aug. 2022 ‑ Sep. 2022], Nagoya University
- Summer Programs

Services

Area Chair: PDLM Workshop @ AAAI 2025
Reviewers: IJCV, TIP, TNNLS, TMM, TCI, etc.
PC Members: ICLR (2024,2025), CVPR (2025), ICML (2025), ECCV (2024), NeurIPS (2024), ACM MM (2025), ICRA (2025), ICME (2025)

Honors and Awards

2023.07 Outstanding Master’s Thesis in Liaoning Province / Northeastern University (<1%)
2022.09 National Scholarship of China (<2%)
20-21/22/23.09 First Class Master Scholarship of Northeastern University (<20%)
2019.06 Outstanding Graduate of Liaoning Province / Northeastern University (<2%)