Xiao Pan is currently an Assistant Professor in the College of Electronics and Information Engineering at Shenzhen University (深圳大学, 丁文华院士团队). He received his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Zhejiang University in 2025, under the supervision of Prof. Yi Yang.
He previously served as a research intern in the Foundation Model Group at Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab and a visiting student at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
He has been honored with prestigious awards such as the National Scholarship from Zhejiang University.
His primary research interests lie in 3D vision, multimodal learning, and AIGC. He has published 10 papers at top-tier international AI conferences and journals.
🔥 News
- 2026.01: 👨🏫 Joined Shenzhen University as an Assistant Professor.
- 2024.06: 🦁 Began a one-year visiting student program at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
- 2023.11: 🌉 Completed a short visit to the Bay Area, including Stanford, UC Berkeley, Meta, and Google.
- 2023.10: 🇫🇷 Attended ICCV 2023 in Paris, France.
- 2021.06: 🔬 Joined Alibaba DAMO Academy as a Research Intern.
📝 Publications

InsightEdit: Towards Better Instruction Following for Image Editing
Yingjing Xu, Jie Kong, Jiazhi Wang, Xiao Pan, Bo Lin, Qiang Liu

GD-NeRF: Generative Detail Compensation for One-shot Generalizable Neural Radiance Fields
Xiao Pan, Zongxin Yang, Shuai Bai, Yi Yang

Wan Li, Xiao Pan, Jiaxin Lin, Ping Lu, Daquan Feng, Wenzhe Shi

TransHuman: A Transformer-based Human Representation for Generalizable Neural Human Rendering
Xiao Pan, Zongxin Yang, Jianxin Ma, Chang Zhou, Yi Yang

In-n-out Generative Learning for Dense Unsupervised Video Segmentation
Xiao Pan, Peike Li, Zongxin Yang, Huiling Zhou, Chang Zhou, Hongxia Yang, Jingren Zhou, Yi Yang
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ACL Findings 2026 Token-level Inference-Time Alignment for Vision-Language Models, Kejia Chen, Junjun Zheng, Jiawen Zhang, Manxi Lin, Xiao Pan, Jiacong Hu, Jian Lou, Zunlei Feng, Mingli Song.
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TMM 2026 FocusGS: Focused Optimization of Dynamic Gaussian Splatting for Monocular Sequence Reconstruction, Wan Li, Xiao Pan, Jiaxin Lin, Daquan Feng.
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PR 2023 Dynamic Gradient Reactivation for Backward Compatible Person Re-identification, Xiao Pan, Hao Luo, Weihua Chen, Fan Wang, Hao Li, Wei Jiang, Jianming Zhang, Jianyang Gu, Peike Li.
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KBS 2022 SFGN: Representing Sequence with One Super Frame for Video Person Re-identification, Xiao Pan, Hao Luo, Wei Jiang, Jianming Zhang, Jianyang Gu, Peike Li.
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KBS 2022 Dynamic Graph Transformer for 3D Object Detection, Siyuan Ren, Xiao Pan, Wenjie Zhao, Binling Nie, Bo Han.
💬 Invited Talks
- 2026.06.27, Zhejiang University: Research Progress in 3D Understanding and Generation.
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2023.10, Academic Excellence Scholarship, School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University.
- 2022.10, National Scholarship, School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University.
- 2021.05, First Place, National College Student Art Exhibition, Chengdu, China.
📖 Educations
- 2021.09 - 2025.12, Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University.
- 2019.09 - 2021.06, M.E. in Control Engineering, College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University.
- 2015.09 - 2019.06, B.E. in Automation (Control), College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University.
💻 Working Experience
- 2026.01 - Present, Assistant Professor, Shenzhen University, China.
- 2024.06 - 2025.06, Visiting Student, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
- 2021.06 - 2024.03, Research Intern, Alibaba Tongyi Lab (Foundation Model Group), China.
📚 Teaching
- 2026 Fall, Computer Vision Frontiers, Graduate Course.
📌 Research Grants
- 2027.01 - 2029.12, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Youth Science Fund (Category C), RMB 300,000.
✉️ Hiring
The following positions are currently open for application:
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Postdoctoral Researcher: Open to applicants working in computer vision, multimodal learning, and related interdisciplinary fields. Candidates with relevant research achievements are preferred.
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Research Intern: Undergraduate students with a strong interest in artificial intelligence and excellent logical thinking skills are welcome to apply. Prior research experience is preferred.
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Master’s Student: Students with a strong interest in research and an intention to pursue a Ph.D. are welcome to apply. Outstanding students may be recommended to continue their doctoral studies.
🌟 Miscs
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I started playing the ErHu when I was 4 years old, taught by my father.
- I served as the head and concertmaster of the Wenqin National Orchestra at Zhejiang University, where I spent 6 enjoyable years (2015 - 2021) and made lifelong friends.
- I am interested in Chinese calligraphy and practice it occasionally.