Dr. Xingyu Zhao, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Wuhan University. He is a recipient of the National High-Level Young Talent Program (Overseas), an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Liverpool, a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Beihang University, and later pursued his PhD in Computer Science at Centre for Software Reliability, City University of London, under the supervision of Professor Bev Littlewood and Professor Robin Bloomfield. After completing his PhD, he held positions at several Russell Group universities in the UK before joining Wuhan University full-time in 2026 as a full Professor in Safe AI.

His research focuses on the reliability and safety technologies of safety-critical systems, with core interests including Trustworthy AI, Software Reliability, Formal Verification, Bayesian Inference, and Safety Analysis and Assurance.

As Principal Investigator or Co-PI, he has led and contributed to securing research funding totaling £7.8 million. His leading research projects have been funded by UKRI-EPSRC, the European Union's Horizon Programme, the British Academy, among others, involving collaborations with industry partners such as Siemens, Huawei, NVIDIA, DENSO, Wayve, and NCC Group.

He serves as Associate Editor for IEEE-TNNLS, Editorial Board Member for Nature-Communications AI & Computing, Area Chair for NeurIPS, and Grant Review Panel Member for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

He has published over 70 papers in top-tier conferences and journals, including:

- Artificial Intelligence: NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, AAAI, UAI, AAMAS, Elsevier-INFFUS, Springer-ML
- Reliability & Safety: Elsevier-RESS, IEEE-TR, ISSRE, DSN, CCS, SafeComp
- Software Engineering: ACM-TOSEM, ACM-TECS, IEEE-TSE, Elsevier-IST, ASE
- Robotics & Autonomous Systems: Nature-CE, IEEE-TCCN, IEEE-RA-L, ICRA, IROS, ITSC, IV

For more details, please refer to his personal homepage (https://www.xzhao.me/).

We are currently recruiting PhD and Master students jointly with Professor Cao Yue's research group (https://jszy.whu.edu.cn/caoyue2/en/). Applicants with backgrounds in Statistics, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mathematics, Machine Learning, or related fields are warmly welcomed, both from within China and internationally.