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 advised by Prof. Yongsheng Gao 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 advised by Dr. Lei Wang, 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 one at Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), a top machine learning conference worldwide, and two in the Companion Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW), where he received the Best Paper Award 🏆. Beyond publishing, he contributes actively to the academic community as a reviewer for conferences like ICLR, 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.
Outside of research, Xi enjoys basketball, badminton, traveling, and playing guitar. These activities keep him curious, creative, and balanced in both work and life.
News 📪
- 2025-10-11 — Received the NeurIPS 2025 Scholar Award.
- 2025-09-18 — Graph Your Own Prompt was accepted at NeurIPS 2025.
- 2025-07-08 — Delivered an invited talk Echoes in the Model: When Features Reflect Predictions at the Data61/CSIRO ICVG Reading Group.
- 2025-03-17 — Appointed as an ARC Research Hub Scholar.
- 2025-03-16 — The Journey of Action Recognition won the Best Paper Award at the Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2025.
- 2025-01-28 — The Journey of Action Recognition was accepted for Oral Presentation at the Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2025.
- 2025-01-28 — Do Language Models Understand Time? was accepted for Oral Presentation at the Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2025.
- 2024-11-13 — Joined the TIME Lab as a Research Assistant at ANU.
✨ This site 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 interesting and useful!