Xinchao Wang

Xinchao Wang is an Assistant Professor and Presidential Young Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS), College of Design and Engineering. He leads the xML Lab, focusing on machine learning and artificial intelligence. Prior to joining NUS, he was an Assistant Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology in the Department of Computer Science and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, under the late Professor Thomas Huang.

He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Vision from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) under Professor Pascal Fua and a B.Sc. in Computing from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University with first-class honors and a perfect GPA. His research spans machine learning, computer vision, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on diffusion models, vision-language models, 3D generation, and dataset distillation.

His recent publications demonstrate strong trends in efficient generative modeling, including acceleration techniques for diffusion models, 3D scene reconstruction, and novel architectures for vision and language tasks. His work frequently appears in top-tier conferences such as CVPR, NeurIPS, ICCV, ECCV, and ICLR.

• AI's 10 to Watch, IEEE (2025)
• Young Research Award, NUS (2025)
• Young Research Award, NUS CDE (2024)
• Best Paper Award, IEEE VCIP 2022
• Outstanding Early Career Award, NUS CDE (2023)
• College Teaching Excellence Award, NUS CDE (2023)

He actively advises Ph.D. students, many of whom have received prestigious awards including the Google Fellowship and ByteDance Scholarship. He has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing since 2023. His lab is actively recruiting Ph.D. students, postdocs, visiting scholars, and research assistants in machine learning and AI. He teaches core courses at NUS including Introduction to Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Pattern Recognition.