Dr. Xiatian Zhu is a Senior Lecturer at the Surrey Institute of People-Centred AI and the Centre for Vision, Speech, and Signal Processing (CVSSP) at the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK. He leads the Universal Perception (UP) lab, which focuses on advancing multimodal generative AI for real-world applications and business. Dr. Zhu earned his PhD from Queen Mary University of London and received the 2016 Sullivan Doctoral Thesis Prize from the British Machine Vision Association, an honour recognizing excellence in AI technologies within computer vision. His contributions include the development and commercialization of multi-camera object association systems for industry. During his time as a research scientist at the Samsung AI Centre in Cambridge, Dr. Zhu pioneered sustainable AI algorithms for understanding visual content in images and videos. His work has garnered several best paper awards, and he has been recognized as one of the UK's and the world's best rising stars in science. Dr. Zhu's extensive research output includes over 120 articles in top-tier conferences and journals, with more than 17,000 citations and an H-index of 54. He actively contributes to the academic community through workshop organization, serving as a senior program committee member and area chair, and participating in panel debates on emerging trends in AI. Additionally, Dr. Zhu holds five US patents in the fields of AI and computer vision.