Ping Hu is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) and an affiliated faculty member at VinUniversity. His research centers on generalizable visual intelligence, spanning open-world scene understanding, multimodal and vision-language learning, and 3D spatial perception.
He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Boston University and was subsequently a Postdoctoral Associate there, advised by Prof. Kate Saenko and Prof. Stan Sclaroff . Before that, he was a research assistant at Nanyang Technological University, advised by Dr. Gang Wang and Prof. Yap-Peng Tan.
He is an IEEE Senior Member and serves as an Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition and ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR). He received the 2025–2026 Outstanding Associate Editor Award from ACM Computing Surveys. He has held senior organizational and program committee roles at major international conferences in artificial intelligence and computer vision, including Technical Program Chair for BMVC 2026 and Area Chair for CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, IJCAI, and ACM Multimedia.