UP Lab
Xiatian Zhu is a Reader (Associate Professor) 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, Guildford, UK.
He leads The UP Lab, dedicated to pioneering Universal Physical and Super Intelligence – building world models, continuous spacetime dynamics, and embodied agents that perceive, reason, plan, and execute physical actions far beyond human precision.
AI is no longer bounded by passive perception or digital software. The UP Lab unifies multimodal sensing (including imagery, text, radar, LiDAR, audio, and continuous physical signals) with hardware actuation to create closed-loop physical systems that understand physical laws, predict complex temporal dynamics, and interact safely with real-world environments.
Guided by our commitment to people-centred AI, we ensure that next-generation physical super intelligence remains ethical, sustainable, and grounded in community needs across the sciences, engineering, industries, and human and animal wellbeing.
Xiatian Zhu holds a Ph.D. from the Queen Mary University of London. He serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM) and Action Editor for Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR). He regularly serves as an Area Chair for premier machine learning and computer vision conferences, including CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, and AAAI. He is a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College and an IEEE Senior Member.
News
| Sep 9, 2026 | Congratulates to Rishiraj Sengupta and the whole team on winning the Best Student Paper award, IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN) 2026 |
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| Jun 23, 2026 | Serving as Area Chair for The 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026 Industry Track) |
| Jun 18, 2026 | 3 ECCV papers accepted |
| May 18, 2026 | Awarded EuroHPC GPU access |
| May 13, 2026 | Awarded as ICML Silver Reviewer |
| May 7, 2026 | 1 ICML paper accepted |
| Mar 10, 2026 | Awarded GPU access of 10,000 hours to the AI Research Resource (AIRR) advanced supercomputers |
| Mar 9, 2026 | Serving for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) EPSRC’s Reer Review College |
| Mar 6, 2026 | Serving as Action Editor for Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) |
| Feb 23, 2026 | 3 CVPR and 2 CVPR Findings track papers accepted |
| Jan 26, 2026 | 3 ICLR papers accepted |
| Oct 16, 2025 | Welcome Mr. Xuanya Zhu joining us as a fresh PhD student |
| Sep 18, 2025 | 3 NeurIPS papers accepted |
| Sep 6, 2025 | Winners for both CBCT imagery segmentation and interactive segmentation tasks of the ToothFairy3 Challenge, MICCAI 2025. Team: Zhi Qin Tan, Xiatian Zhu, Owen Addison, Yunpeng Li |
| Sep 2, 2025 | Serving as Area Chair for The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026 |