PeopleofSuperintelligence

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Hua Xu

Hua Xu is a computer scientist at Tsinghua University whose AI work spans evolutionary optimization, multimodal language systems and natural human-machine interaction. He earned degrees from Xi'an Jiaotong University and Tsinghua University, then joined Tsinghua's Department of Computer Science and Technology in 2003. His team received the second-class National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2009 for a high-density plasma etching project. He coauthored a dialogue intent-discovery method in 2021, the M-SENA multimodal sentiment platform in 2022, a book on evolutionary optimization in 2024, and a 2025 method for multimodal intent reasoning with large language models. As of October 2026, he is a tenured associate professor at Tsinghua and Editor-in-Chief of Intelligent Systems with Applications.

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Timeline

  1. 1998–2003

    Degrees in computing

    He earns a bachelor's degree in computer science and technology from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1998, a master's degree in computer application technology at Tsinghua University in 2000, and a Ph.D. in computer application technology at Tsinghua in 2003.

  2. 2003

    Joining Tsinghua's CS department

    He joins Tsinghua's Department of Computer Science and Technology in 2003.

  3. 2009

    A national science award

    His team receives the second-class National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2009 for research and industrialization of a 100 nm high-density plasma etching machine.

  4. 2021

    Discovering new dialogue intents

    In 2021, he coauthors Deep Aligned Clustering, a method that uses a few labeled known-intent examples to discover new intents in dialogue systems.

  5. 2022

    M-SENA for sentiment analysis

    In 2022, he coauthors M-SENA, an open-source platform for multimodal sentiment analysis with modular tools for video data management, feature extraction, model training and result analysis.

  6. 2024

    Intelligent Evolutionary Optimization

    With Yuan Yuan, he publishes Intelligent Evolutionary Optimization in 2024. The book presents biologically inspired algorithms for complex and combinatorial optimization, including problems with many objectives in high-dimensional spaces.

  7. 2025

    LLM reasoning for multimodal intent

    In 2025, he coauthors LLM-Guided Semantic Relational Reasoning for Multimodal Intent Recognition. The method uses a large language model to extract semantic cues and model relations for multimodal intent and dialogue-act recognition.

  8. As of October 2026

    Tsinghua professor and journal editor

    As of October 2026, he is a tenured associate professor in Tsinghua University's Department of Computer Science and Technology and Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier's Intelligent Systems with Applications. His research covers intelligent optimization, multimodal information processing, mobile robots and natural human-machine interaction.

Career

  1. Since 2003Tsinghua UniversityTenured Associate Professor

Education

  1. 2003Tsinghua UniversityPh.D. in computer application technology
  2. 2000Tsinghua UniversityMaster's degree in computer application technology
  3. 1998Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityBachelor's degree in computer science and technology

From the biography.

  1. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Tsinghua University. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  2. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes Tsinghua University. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  3. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Tsinghua University. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  4. 84% of people shaping AI with recorded undergraduate and doctoral schools changed institutions for their doctorateIncludes Tsinghua University. 84% of people shaping AI with recorded undergraduate and doctoral schools changed institutions for their doctorate. Across 2,116 people with both an undergraduate degree and a doctorate recorded, we trace which undergraduate schools feed which doctoral programs, how often students stay at the same school, and how paths differ by birth-country region.

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Sources and credits

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  1. Hua XU-Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University cs.tsinghua.edu.cn. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Hua Xu thu-xuhua.github.io. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Discovering New Intents with Deep Aligned Clustering | Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ojs.aaai.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. M-SENA: An Integrated Platform for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Intelligent Evolutionary Optimization - 1st Edition | Elsevier Shop shop.elsevier.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. LLM-Guided Semantic Relational Reasoning for Multimodal Intent Recognition - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 21 October 2026.