Xihui Liu 刘希慧
Assistant Professor
University of Hong Kong
HKU-MMLab
Department of EEE
Institute of Data Science
Department of Computer Science (by courtesy)
Computer Vision
Generative Models
Multimodal AI
Embodied AI
AI for Science
Email: xihuiliu@eee.hku.hk
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I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Institute of Data Science (IDS), The University of Hong Kong. Before joining HKU, I was a postdoc Scholar at EECS Department and BAIR at UC Berkeley, advised by Prof. Trevor Darrell. I obtained my Ph.D. degree from Multimedia Lab (MMLab), Chinese University of Hong Kong, supervised by Prof. Xiaogang Wang and Prof. Hongsheng Li. I received bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering in Tsinghua University.
My research interests cover computer vision, deep learning, and artificial intelligence, with special emphasis on generative models and multimodal AI. I am also interested in their applications in embodied AI and AI for Science. I was awarded Adobe Research Fellowship 2020, Rising Stars in EECS 2021, and WAIC Rising Stars Award 2022. I serve as Area Chairs for CVPR 2024, ACM MultiMedia 2024, ICLR 2025, CVPR 2025, ACM MultiMedia 2025, and NeurIPS 2025. I co-organized ICML 2024 ICML 2024 Workshop on Multimodal Foundation Model Meets Embodied AI and CVPR 2025 WorkshopWorldModelBench: The 1st Workshop on Benchmarking World Models.
I am actively looking for self-motivated Ph.D. students, postdoctoral scholars, research assistants, and visiting students to join my group. Please drop me an email if you are interested. Eligible students can apply for Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) and HKU Presidential PhD Scholar Programme (HKU-PS). Postgraduate scholarships (PGS) are granted to other students without HKPFS and HKU-PS. Due to the large number of emails I received, I cannot reply to all of them. But I do read all emails and reply to those that I am interested in. There's no need to send duplicate emails.
