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Sirui Xie

PhD Candidate
Center for Vision, Cognition, Learning and Autonomy
Computer Science Department, UCLA
Email: srxie [at] ucla [dot] edu

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I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science Department, UCLA, advised by Prof. Song-Chun Zhu and Prof. Ying Nian Wu. I did my undergrad at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). I have conducted research at Meta Fundamental AI Research (FAIR), AWS AI, and Google Brain.

My research interests include Representation Learning, Generative Modeling and Sequential Decision Making. Currently, my work focuses on generative models and representation functions that can recover the structure of high-dimensional signals in latent spaces, with the aim of potentially explaining the emergence of the conscious mind. Previously, I worked on (inverse) reinforcement learning and AutoML.

News
  • [Oct. 2022] Emergent Graphical Conventions in a Communication Game is accepted by NeurIPS 2022!
  • [May. 2022] COAT, a metric for object compositionality in emergent representations and Latent Diffusion EBM, a generative model for controllable text modeling are accepted by ICML 2022!
  • [Oct. 2021] Gave a talk on "Measuring Object Compositionality in Emergent Representations" at FAIR!
  • [Sep. 2021] Deep Region Competition, a generative model with latent energy-based prior for disentanglement learning, is accepted by NeurIPS 2021. Congratulations to Peiyu!

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Education

  • 2019.09 - present, University of California, Los Angeles
    PhD in Computer Science
  • 2012.09 - 2016.06, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    BEng in Computer Science, First-Class Honor

Selected Awards

  • Graduate Research Assistantship, UCLA, 2019 - present
  • Full Scholarship, HKUST, 2012 - 2016

Professional Service

  • Conference Reviewer: NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AISTATS, AAAI, IJCAI, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICRA
  • Journal Reviewer: IEEE/T-PAMI, IEEE/RA-L

Contact

3878 Slitcher Hall
603 Charles E Young Dr E
Los Angeles, CA 90024
srxie [at] ucla [dot] edu