Welcome to Xi Ding’s Personal Website 👋

Code ⟇ Create ⟇ Chill
From Code to Creation, with a touch of Chill.

About Me 🏄‍♂️

Xi Ding is a researcher in machine learning with a focus on making artificial intelligence (AI) more interpretable, robust, and trustworthy. He recently completed his Master of Computing degree at the Australian National University (ANU) 🎓, where he specialized in machine learning. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Australian Research Council (ARC) Research Hub hosted at Griffith University, contributing to projects on domain adaptation, temporal reasoning, and uncertainty-aware learning.

At the TIME Lab ⏳, Xi worked as a Research Assistant, where he applied vision-language models to advance video understanding tasks such as action recognition and anomaly detection. His research focused on helping AI capture long-term patterns, improve interpretability, and provide clearer explanations for its decisions.

Xi has published multiple first-author papers, including two in the Companion Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW) 2025, where he also received the Best Paper Award 🏆. Beyond publishing, he contributes actively to the academic community as a reviewer for conferences like AAAI, ICME, and AVSS, and served as a Workshop Coordinator at WWW 2025.

In addition to academic work, Xi has built creative projects combining AI and real-world applications. His Active Vision project helps tennis players improve their swings with real-time feedback, while his Image Embedding Explorer provides interactive 3D visualization of complex image data. These projects reflect his passion for building AI tools that are both innovative and user-friendly.

Before moving into computing, Xi earned his Bachelor’s degree in Economics at China Agricultural University and the University of Colorado Denver. His training in statistics, econometrics, and numerical analysis gave him strong analytical skills and a unique perspective on AI research.

Outside of research, Xi enjoys basketball 🏀, badminton, traveling ✈️, and playing guitar 🎸. These activities keep him curious, creative, and balanced in both work and life.

✨ This website is a place to share my research, projects, and experiences!
💡 Whether you’re here to learn about my work or explore my interests, I hope you find something useful!