Xiaoguang Zhu

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Postdoctoral Researcher,
Department of Computer Science,
University of California, Davis
E-mail: xgzhu@ucdavis.edu; apollozxg@gmail.com

Biography

I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Davis, working on causal and multimodal learning for medical AI. My mentors include Prof. Vladimir Filkov, Prof. Chen-Nee Chuah, Prof. Uma Srivatsa, and Prof. Nipavan Chiamvimonvat.

I received my PhD in Information and Communication Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in 2022, advised by Prof. Peilin Liu. I also obtained my Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from SJTU.

My research focuses on building robust and interpretable learning systems for healthcare and multimodal AI.

Research Interests

  • Causal Deep Learning for Health

  • Multimodal Learning

  • Multimodal Large Language Models

  • Representation Learning

  • AI for Cardiovascular Disease

News

  • Dec. 2025: Work on cardiac sarcoidosis progression modeling and atrial fibrillation medication outcome estimation is submitted to Heart Rhythm 2026.

  • Dec. 2025: Our work on Privacy-Preserving Video Anomaly Detection: A Survey is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS).

  • Nov. 2025: Work on Causality-Aware Direct Preference Optimization for Aligning Medical Vision-Language Models is submitted to CVPR 2026.

  • Nov. 2025: Work on Empowering Source-Free Domain Adaptation with MLLM-Driven Curriculum Learning is accepted by WACV 2026.

  • Oct. 2025: Work on Graph-Based Neural Controlled Diffusion Equations for Atrial Fibrillation Outcome Prediction Using Intracardiac Electrogram is submitted to ICASSP 2026.

  • Oct. 2025: Work on Benchmarking Parameter-Efficient Adaptation of Vision-Language Models on Pathology is accepted at the NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Imageomics.

  • Sep. 2025: Work on Causal Debiasing Medical Multimodal Representation Learning with Missing Modalities is submitted to IEEE TKDE.

  • Sep. 2025: Work on Co-HSF: Resource-Efficient One-Shot Semi-Supervised Adaptation of Histopathology Foundation Models is accepted at the AAAI 2025 Spring Symposium on AI for Health.

  • Aug. 2025: Work on Multimodal Large Language Models in Medicine and Nursing: A Survey is submitted to IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering.

  • Jun. 2025: Work on CRCL: Causal Representation Consistency Learning for Anomaly Detection in Surveillance Videos appears in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 34.

  • Dec. 2024: Work on Adaptive Weighted Parameter Fusion with CLIP for Class-Incremental Learning is accepted by ICME 2025.

  • Apr. 2024: Joined UC Davis DataLab as a Postdoctoral researcher, focusing on causal and multimodal learning for medical AI.

  • Apr. 2024: Work on Supplementing Missing Visions via Dialog for Scene Graph Generation is published at ICASSP 2024.

  • Jan. 2024: Work on Graph-based Networks with Channel Selection for EEG Signal Learning is published in Biomedical Signal Processing and Control.

Academic Experience

  • Invited Reviewer: CVPR 2021-2026, ICCV 2021-2025, ECCV 2022-2024, AAAI 2025, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, ACM Computing Surveys, Artificial Intelligence Reviews

  • Technical Program Committee: INSAI 2021-2025

  • Guest Editor: Special Issue on Action Recognition, Journal of Imaging

  • Teaching Assistant: Digital Circuits, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2015