Chengpei Xu

Chengpei Xu is a Research Fellow at the Mine Internet of Things and Indoor Positioning (MIoT & IPIN) Lab, MERE, University of New South Wales, Sydney. His academic journey includes a Bachelor's in System Engineering from NUDT (China), a Master's in Information Technology from UNSW, and a Ph.D. in Computing Sciences and Engineering from University of Technology Sydney (2022).

Research Interests:

• Designing deep learning algorithms for multi-modal scene/document understanding and analysis
• Developing generative AI for healthcare, eLearning, and human-computer interaction
• Multi-modal sensor fusion to analyze complex, degraded environments
• Detection and recognition of arbitrarily shaped scene text

Grants & Supervision:

• CI for Australia’s Economic Accelerator (AEA) grant (2024-2025): $160,000 for "Rock bolt identification based on LiDAR point cloud"
• Supervising MPhil student Birgul Topal (Middle East Technical University) on "Partially Overlapping Point Cloud Registration Accuracy in Mine Tunnels"

Labs & Affiliations:

• Mine Internet of Things and Indoor Positioning (MIoT & IPIN) Lab
• Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering (MERE), University of New South Wales