About me

Xiandong Zou is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Singapore Management University, under the supervision of Prof. Pan Zhou. He is a member of the Language and Vision Lab (LV-Lab), directed by Prof. Shuicheng Yan and Prof. Pan Zhou. He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Mathematics from Imperial College London, where he researched at DeepWok Lab with Prof. Aaron Zhao on various machine learning projects.

His research interests include AIGC, generative models, preference alignment, and controllable generation.

Selected Publication

HPS: Hard Preference Sampling for Human Preference Alignment

Xiandong Zou, Wanyu Lin, Yuchen Li, Pan Zhou
Forty-Second International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2025).
Paper | Project Page


Cached Multi-Lora Composition for Multi-Concept Image Generation

Xiandong Zou, Mingzhu Shen, Christos-Savvas Bouganis, Yiren Zhao
The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025).
Paper | Project Page


Will More Expressive Graph Neural Networks do Better on Generative Tasks?

Xiandong Zou, Xiangyu Zhao, Pietro Liò, Yiren Zhao
Learning on Graphs Conference (LOG). PMLR, 2024.
Paper | Project Page

Honors & Awards

  • 2023 & 2024 Imperial College UROP Award
  • 2022 Dean’s List at Imperial College London
  • 2019 American Mathematics Competition 12: Certificate of Distinction
  • 2019 Euclid Mathematic Contest: Certificate of Distinction
  • 2019 34th Annual AAPT PhysicsBowl Contest: Honorable Award

Professional Service

Conference Reviewer for

  • Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS, 2025)