Presenter

Zexiang Xu is the Vice President of Research and Development at Hillbot, where he mainly works on multimodal foundation models for robotics and embodied AI. Prior to joining Hillbot, He was a research scientist at Adobe Research, working on neural 3D, 3D large models, and GenAI foundation models. He obtained Ph. D. at University of California, San Diego, advised by Prof. Ravi Ramamoorthi. His research lies at the intersection of computer vision, computer graphics, machine learning, and AI foundation models. His previous work has broadly covered 3D reconstruction, 3D generation, neural representations, view synthesis, relighting, appearance modeling, and appearance acquisition.