Xikun Zhang
Details
Department: School of Computing Technologies
Campus: City Campus Australia
xikun.zhang@rmit.edu.au
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Xikun is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, RMIT University. He received his BSc degree in Applied Physics from University of Science and Technology of China (Special Class for the Gifted Young), M.Phil. and Ph.D. degree from The University of Sydney (USYD), under the supervision from Prof. Dacheng Tao, Dr. Dongjin Song, and Dr. Chang Xu. After graduation, Xikun joined Prof. Dacheng Tao's group at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, in 2024 as a Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow. He then joined RMIT University in 2026 as a Lecturer. His work has been published in leading conferences including ICLR, NeurIPS, KDD, WWW, ICDM, CVPR, ECCV, and top journals like TPAMI and TNNLS.
Supervisor projects
- Fake or Fact? Detecting and Mitigating AI-Generated Fake Content
- 23 Feb 2026
Teaching interests
- Deep Learning
- AI/Data Science Professional
- Linear Algebra
- Thermal Science
Research interests
- Graph machine learning
- AI for biology, with a particular focus on ageing research
- Large language model (LLM) reasoning and LLM-based agents
- Foundation models
