2023 - Present
Sun Yat-sen University, Ph.D. in Cyberspace Security
Xinran Qin
Ph.D. Candidate, Sun Yat-sen University
I am a Ph.D. candidate at Sun Yat-sen University, advised by Prof. Xiaochun Cao, and will be graduating in July 2027. During my master's study at South China University of Technology, I worked with Prof. Yuhui Quan and collaborated with Prof. Hui Ji at NUS. My research interests include generative models, multimodal understanding and generation, image editing, video editing, and low-level vision.
I am expected to graduate in 2027 and currently on the job market. Please feel free to contact me if interested.
Education
2020 - 2023
South China University of Technology, M.Eng. in Computer Technology
2016 - 2020
South China University of Technology, B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology
Experience
2026.02 - Present
JD Explore Academy, Algorithm Intern
Foundation model training, JoyOmini I2V/V2V, JoyAI-Image-Edit, and e-commerce generation deployment.
2025.01 - 2026.02
Huawei, Research Intern
General image editing, camera-controllable editing, and smartphone-side algorithm deployment.
Selected Publications
UltraTarget: Instruction-Guided Image Editing for Precise Multi-Object Manipulation
Xinran Qin, Zhixin Wang, Fan Li, Jiaqi Xu, Renjing Pei, Xiaochun Cao (corr. author).
Disentangle to Fuse: Towards Content Preservation and Cross-Modality Consistency for Multi-Modality Image Fusion
Xinran Qin, Yuning Cui, Ruoyu Chen, Shangquan Sun, Wenqi Ren, Alois Knoll, Xiaochun Cao (corr. author).
Ground-Truth Free Meta-Learning for Deep Compressive Sampling
Xinran Qin (corr. author), Yuhui Quan, Tongyao Pang, Hui Ji.
Honors
- 2025 NeurIPS Scholar Award.
- 2023 - 2025 First-Class Scholarship, Sun Yat-sen University.
- 2016 - 2019 Top Student Scholarship, South China University of Technology.
Academic Service
Reviewer for ICML, CVPR, ECCV, NeurIPS, ACM MM, AAAI, TPAMI, TIP, and TNNLS.
TPC Member for IEEE WCNCW 2026 WS-09.