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Kai Wu (吴凯) Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Artificial Intelligence
Xidian University, China

Wangan Building CII-1207
South Campus, Xidian University

Email:kwu@xidian.edu.cn [Google Scholar] [DBLP] [Chinese Profile] [Github Profile]


Short Bio

He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University. The main research topics are

  • Autonomous Intelligence, including Automated Algorithm Design;

  • Foundation Models for Industrial Structured Data

  • Optimization Foundation Models Beyond the No-Free-Lunch Theorem;

  • The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Cryptanalysis.

  • I obtained my Ph.D. from Xidian University in 2020, under the supervision of Jing Liu. I received the B.S. degree from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2015.

    Collaborators and Students

    Collaborators: Handing Wang, Jian Lou, Chao Wang

    News

    • [May 2026] One paper are accepted by PPSN 2026. Congratulations, Yihan!

    • [May 2026] one paper are accepted by ICML 2026. Congratulations, Muqi and Ruoqi!

    • [Sep 2025] Two paper are accepted by AAAI 2026. Congratulations, Shibing, Haoyang and Yulin!

    • [Sep 2025] Two paper are accepted by NeurIPS 2025. Congratulations, Wenxun, Muqi and Xiaobin!

    • [Aug 2025] One paper is accepted by ACM CCS 2025.

    • [Jun 2025] One paper is accepted by IEEE TKDE.

    • [May 2025] One paper is accepted by ICML 2025.

    • [Mar 2025] One paper is accepted by IEEE CEC 2025. Congratulations, Tianyu!

    • [Jan 2025] One paper is accepted by WWW 2025 AI4TS Workshop, and one is selected as Oral Presentation. Congratulations, Beining

    • [Dec 2024] Two paper is accepted by AAAI 2025, and one is selected as Oral Presentation. Congratulations, Shibing and Xiaobin!

    • [Oct 2024] One paper is accepted by IEEE TMM.

    • [Sep 2024] Two paper are accepted by NeurIPS 2024. Congratulations, Yujian and Xiaobin!

    • [Aug 2024] One paper is accepted by IEEE TDSC.

    • [Jul 2024] One paper is accepted by ACM MM 2024.

    • [Jun 2024] One paper is accepted by IEEE TMI. Congratulations, Yingzhi!

    • [May 2024] One paper is accepted by ICML 2024. Congratulations, Xinyu!

    • [May 2024] One paper is accepted by Neurocomputing. Congratulations, Yingzhi!

    • [Apr 2024] One paper is accepted by IEEE TFS. Congratulations, Yingzhi!

    • [Mar 2024] One paper is accepted by GECCO 2024. Congratulations, Yudong!

    • [Dec 2023] One paper is accepted by AAAI 2024. Congratulations, Lanlan!

    • [Oct 2023] Announcing [SPELL: Semantic Prompt Evolution based on an LLM], proposing a semantic evolution algorithm for optimizing prompts in Language Models (LLMs).

    • [May 2023] One paper is accepted by Physical Review Research. Congratulations, Yuanyuan!

    • [Mar 2023] One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. Congratulations, Huixin!

    • [Feb 2023] One paper is accepted by Knowledge-based Systems. Congratulations, YiTong!

    • [Nov 2022] I Won Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation of Shaanxi Province.

    • [Nov 2022] One paper is accepted by Information Sciences. Congratulations, Yilu!

    • [Oct 2022] One paper is accepted by IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine. Congratulations, Chao!

    • [Oct 2022] One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. Congratulations, Kaixin!

    • [Aug 2022] One paper is accepted by Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. So far, all my work during my doctoral study has been settled!

    • [Aug 2022] I Won the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of the 5th Conference on Intelligent Optimization and Scheduling in 2022!

    • [Aug 2022] One paper is accepted by Applied Soft Computing. Congratulations, Kaixin!

    • [Apr 2022] I Won the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Xidian University in 2022!