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Xiaohan Yu is a Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence at Macquarie University’s School of Computing since December 2023. He completed his doctoral studies at Griffith University, Australia, and joined as a Research Fellow in the ARC Research Hub Driving Farming Productivity and Disease Prevention at Griffith University. Yu was awarded the Australian Pattern Recognition Society (APRS) Early Career Researcher Award in 2022 for his contributions to bridging pattern recognition and smart farming. His research interests encompass Ultra-Fine-Grained Visual Categorization (Ultra-FGVC), Smart Farming, and Automated Crop Cultivar Identification. Yu has established and advanced research in Ultra-FGVC, authoring 70 publications, including 30+ in CORE A* ranked journals and conferences such as ICCV, CVPR, ECCV, AAAI, IJCAI, ACM MM, and IEEE Transactions. He has served as an Associate Editor for the journal Pattern Recognition and has held positions as Area Chair for ACM MM 2024 & 2025 and IJCNN 2025. Yu also received the ACM MM 2024 Outstanding Area Chair award.
Applied to Department of Business (MBA Program).