UP Lab

Xiatian Zhu, a Senior Lecturer affiliated with the Surrey Institute for People-Centred Artificial Intelligence and the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) at the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK, leads the Universal Perception (UP) Lab. Previously a research scientist at Samsung AI Centre, Cambridge, UK, Dr. Zhu holds a Ph.D. from the Queen Mary University of London.
The UP Lab is dedicated to advancing Multimodal Generative AI (GenAI) by modelling diverse data and observations, such as images, videos, audio, text, 3D points, LiDAR, radar, and remote sensing etc. Our applications span a wide range of domains, such as creative media, fashion design, healthcare, climate science, finance, cybersecurity, chemical engineering, sports, gaming, and social issues. Guided by our principle of putting people at the heart of AI, we prioritize the ethical integration of AI capacities with real-world application norms, emphasizing sustainable and responsible AI practices. This ensures our AI initiatives are grounded in community needs and values, aiming to develop transformative technologies that positively impact society and enhance the well-being of individuals and communities.
Email: xiatian.zhu at surrey.ac.uk
News
Feb 14, 2025 | Welcome applications for Fully Funded PhD Position in Generative AI & Multimodal LLMs (University of Surrey & A*STAR, Singapore) |
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Feb 10, 2025 | Welcome Mr. Yupeng Fang joining us as a visiting student |
Jan 27, 2025 | Serving as Associate Editor for Neurocomputing |
Jan 23, 2025 | 3 ICLR papers accepted (1 oral with 1.8% acceptance rate, 2 poster) |
Dec 20, 2024 | 2 ICASSP papers accepted |
Dec 10, 2024 | 3 AAAI papers accepted |
Nov 30, 2024 | Area chair, and co-organising a Special Session at ICME 2025: Towards Realistic 3D Deep Learning with Limited Supervision. |
Nov 20, 2024 | Welcome Dr. Deyin Liu joining us (w/ Dr. Anjan Dutta) as a visiting scholar |
Oct 30, 2024 | Serving as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Computer Scicence, Computer Vision |
Oct 9, 2024 | Serving as Area chair for IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2025) |
Oct 1, 2024 | Welcome Miss Heng Rao on board |
Sep 26, 2024 | 5 NeurIPS papers (2 spotlight, 3 posters) and 1 workshop paper accepted |
Jul 8, 2024 | 2 ECCV papers and 1 workshop paper accepted |
Jun 4, 2024 | Welcome Mr. Zhe Zhang visiting the UP lab |
May 6, 2024 | Welcome Mr. Yuchao Li visiting the UP lab |