Shijian Xu

I am a PhD student at the Biomedical Data Analysis group at University of Basel, where I have the privilege of working with Prof. Volker Roth.

Before that I obtained my Master's degree and Bachelor's degree from EPFL and Nanjing University respectively.

Email / CV / Google Scholar / Github

Research

NIMO: a Nonlinear Interpretable MOdel
Shijian Xu, Marcello Massimo Negri, Volker Roth
ICLR, 2026
arXiv | code

Simple Control Baselines for Evaluating Transfer Learning
Andrei Atanov*, Shijian Xu*, Onur Beker, Andrei Filatov, Amir Zamir
arXiv, 2022
arXiv | project page

Predicting Smartphone App Usage with Recurrent Neural Networks
Shijian Xu, W. Li, X. Zhang, S. Gao, T. Zhan, Y. Zhao, W.-W. Zhu, T. Sun
International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA), 2018

Experience

DisneyResearch|Studios, Zürich, Switzerland
Research Intern | 02/2022 – 08/2022
Image super-resolution research.

Tencent PCG, Shanghai, China
Research Intern | 07/2021 – 09/2021
Transformer-based multi-label image classification.

Tencent AI Lab, Shenzhen, China
Research Intern | 02/2020 – 08/2020
Self-supervised multi-modal video classification.

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Researcher | 09/2018 – 12/2019
Deep learning for image specular highlight removal and semi-supervised single image heavy rain removal.

Teaching

Scientific Computing, University of Basel
Teaching Assistant | 2024, 2025

Awards

Second Prize of Excellent Bachelor Thesis Award, Nanjing University, 2018
Third Prize of Elite Program Scholarship, Nanjing University, 2017
Honorable Mention for MCM 2017
People's Scholarship, Nanjing University, 2015-2016

Miscellanea

Languages: English (Advanced), German (A2), French (A1/A2), Chinese (Native)

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