Xiaobo Xia (夏晓波)

Professor & Ph.D Advisor

School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China

also affiliate with Ph.D. Supervisor, Artificial General Intelligence Institute

E-mail: xiaoboxia [AT] ustc.edu.cn / xiaoboxia.uni [AT] gmail.com

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About Me

Dr. Xiaobo Xia currently is a professor at School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China. Before that, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at School of Computing of National University of Singapore. He obtained his Ph.D. degree at School of Computer Science of The University of Sydney and received his bachelor degree at Xidian University.

He is a recipient of Google Fellowship (Google AI), JProcRSNSW Ph.D. Thesis Award, and NeurIPS Top Area Chair Award.

He regularly serves as area chairs for ICML/NeurIPS/ICLR/ACM MM. He also serve as an Action Editor for Transactions on Machine Learning Research.

Group | Publications | Course | Experience | Awards | Service

Research Focus

Our research is centered on building world models and foundational models that integrate physical laws and spatio-temporal dimensions, leveraging multimodal data and techniques to push the boundaries of AI’s ability to model and reason within complex realistic environments. In our work, we aim to connect fundamental theory and novel algorithms with high-impact applications, particularly in the scientific domain.

Current key words: world models, foundational models, multimodal learning, learning theory.

Recruitment

Various positions (Postdoctoral Researchers/Full-time Ph.D./Master Program/Research Engineers/Assistants) are avaliable. Base: Hefei or Shanghai. Please email me if you are interested in above topics.

Recent News   

  • 2026.03: Serve as an Acition Editor for Transactions on Machine Learning Research.
  • 2026.02: Three papers are accepted to CVPR 2026.
  • 2026.02: Serve as an Area Chair for ACM MM 2026.
  • 2026.01: Two papers are accepted to ICLR 2026.
  • 2025.11: Two papers are accepted to AAAI 2026 (2 Orals).
  • 2025.11: Serve as an Area Chair for ICML 2026.
  • 2025.10: One paper is accepted to Nexus (Cell Press).
  • 2025.09: Five papers are accepted to NeurIPS 2025.
  • 2025.08: Serve as an Area Chair for ICLR 2026.
  • 2025.07: One paper is accepted to ACM MM 2025 as Oral.
  • 2025.06: One paper is accepted to ICCV 2025 as Highlight.
  • 2025.05: One paper is accepted to ICML 2025.
  • 2025.02: Serve as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2025.