Xihui Liu

Xihui Liu is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) and Institute of Data Science (IDS), The University of Hong Kong, with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Computer Science. She holds a PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a bachelor’s from Tsinghua University. Her research focuses on generative models, multimodal AI, computer vision, and their applications in embodied AI and AI for Science.

Education:

• PhD in Multimedia Lab (MMLab), Chinese University of Hong Kong (2017–2021)
• Bachelor’s in Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University (2013–2017)

Research Interests:

• Generative models for 3D content and multimodal systems
• Embodied AI and vision-language integration
• Applications in scientific domains

Awards:

• Adobe Research Fellowship (2020)
• Rising Stars in EECS (2021)
• WAIC Rising Stars Award (2022)

Her work emphasizes interactive generative systems and benchmarks like T2I-CompBench. She co-organized workshops on multimodal foundation models and embodied AI, and currently serves as Area Chair for CVPR, NeurIPS, and ICLR.