About Me
Xiandong Zou is a Ph.D. candidate 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.
He strives to build principled and reliable generative systems on the path toward AGI. His research interests include AIGC, generative models, preference alignment, and controllable generation.
Selected Publication (Full List)
DreamCS: Geometry-Aware Text-to-3D Generation with Unpaired 3D Reward Supervision
Xiandong Zou, Ruihao Xia, Hongsong Wang, Pan Zhou
The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026).
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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
- 2025 SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship in Computing
- 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 and Teaching
Conference Reviewer/Program Committee
- Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS, 2025)
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR, 2026)
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML, 2026)
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI, 2026)
- Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL, 2026)
Teaching Assistant
- CS 424: Generative AI for Vision (2026 Spring, Instructor: Prof. Pan Zhou)