Zelin Xu 徐则林

Department of CISE, University of Florida

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6200 Malachowsky Hall,

1889 Museum Road

Gainesville, Florida 32611

I am a 1st 2nd 3rd 4th year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Florida, advised by Dr. Zhe Jiang. Before this, I received my B.E. degree in Artificial Intelligence from Shandong University in 2022, under the supervision of Dr. Meng Chen.

My research interests lies in large-scale and efficient deep learning, deep generative models, multimodal foundation models, and AI for science. My work earned the Best Paper Award at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2023 and the Blue Sky Best Paper Award Runner-Up at SDM 2024.

I’m always excited to explore collaborative opportunities - feel free to reach out!

News

Aug 8, 2025 One paper accepted at SIGSPATIAL 2025.
Aug 3, 2025 One paper accepted at TMLR.
May 19, 2025 Started my Applied Scientist internship at Amazon, working on generative recommendation.
May 1, 2025 One paper accepted at ICML 2025.
Dec 19, 2024 One paper accepted at IPDPS 2025.
Dec 9, 2024 One paper accepted at AAAI 2025.
Oct 23, 2024 One paper accepted by ACM TSAS.
Apr 22, 2024 Our paper received the Blue Sky Track Best Paper Award Runner-Up at SDM 2024!
Dec 18, 2023 One paper accepted at SDM 2024 Blue Sky Vision Track.
Dec 9, 2023 One paper accepted at AAAI 2024.
Nov 15, 2023 My 1st-author paper won the SIGSPATIAL 2023 Best Paper Award !!!
Oct 27, 2023 One paper accepted at NeurIPS 2023 AI for Science Workshop.
Sep 21, 2023 One paper accepted at NeurIPS 2023.
Sep 8, 2023 My first paper was accepted at SIGSPATIAL 2023.
Aug 24, 2022 My Ph.D. journey at the University of Florida has officially begun!

Selected Publications

  1. ICML 25
    CoastalBench: A Decade-Long High-Resolution Dataset to Emulate Complex Coastal Processes
    Zelin Xu, Yupu Zhang, Tingsong Xiao, Maitane Olabarrieta Lizaso, Jose Maria Gonzalez Ondina, Zibo Liu, Shigang Chen, and Zhe Jiang
    In ICML, 2025
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  2. IPDPS 25
    Accelerate Coastal Ocean Circulation Model with AI Surrogate
    Zelin Xu, Jie Ren, Yupu Zhang, Jose Maria Gonzalez Ondina, Maitane Olabarrieta, Tingsong Xiao, Wenchong He, Zibo Liu, Shigang Chen, Kaleb Smith, and Zhe Jiang
    In IPDPS, 2025
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  3. SDM 24
    Foundation Models for Spatiotemporal Tasks in the Physical World
    Zhe Jiang, Yu Wang, and Zelin Xu
    In SDM, 2024
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  4. AAAI 24
    Spatial-Logic-Aware Weakly Supervised Learning for Flood Mapping on Earth Imagery
    Zelin Xu, Tingsong Xiao, Wenchong He, Yu Wang, Zhe Jiang, Shigang Chen, Yiqun Xie, Xiaowei Jia, Da Yan, and Yang Zhou
    In AAAI, 2024
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  5. SIGSPATIAL 23
    Spatial Knowledge-Infused Hierarchical Learning: An Application in Flood Mapping on Earth Imagery
    Zelin Xu, Tingsong Xiao, Wenchong He, Yu Wang, and Zhe Jiang
    In SIGSPATIAL, 2023
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