Biography

Dr. Jibin Wu is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed in the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and the Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Before joining PolyU, he was a research scientist at Sea AI Lab (SAIL) from 2021 to 2022. Dr. Wu received Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees from National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2016 and 2020, respectively.

Dr. Wu is currently affiliated with the MIND Lab@PolyU, which is dedicated to advancing the frontiers of nature-inspired artificial intelligence research. His research interests encompass a wide range of areas, focusing on brain-inspired artificial intelligence, neuromorphic computing, computational audition, speech processing, and machine learning. His primary dedication lies in unraveling the computational principles and architectures of biological brains while also striving to develop cutting-edge brain-inspired cognitive machines that possess exceptional intelligence, energy efficiency, robustness, adaptability, and explainability.

Dr. Wu has actively published in prestigious conferences and journals in artificial intelligence and speech processing, including NeurIPS, AAAI, TPAMI, TNNLS, TASLP, Neurocomputing, and IEEE JSTSP. He is currently serving as the Associate Editors for IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems.

Research Interests
  • Computational Neuroscience

    Learning Algorithms for Spiking Neural Networks, Neural Coding, Brain-inspired Neural Architecture Design

  • Computational Audition

    Human Auditory System Modelling, Auditory Attention Modelling, Cocktail Party Problem

  • Speech Processing

    Automatic Speech Recognition, Speech Separation, Speaker Extraction, Speaker Verification, etc.

  • Cognitive Robot

    Neuromorphic Sensing, Human-Robot Interaction, Embodied AI, Neural Cognitive Architecture

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy, 2020

    National University of Singapore

  • BEng in Electrical Engineering, 2016

    National University of Singapore

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Latest News

[09/2025] Congratulations to Song Zeyang, Zhang Shimin, and Chou Yuhong for their paper “IML-Spikeformer: Input-aware Multi-Level Spiking Transformer for Speech Processing” accepted by IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.
[09/2025] We have three papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025. Congratulations to Chou Yuhong, Yu Zhou, and Yao Jian on this outstanding achievement!
[08/2025] Congratulations to Yan Yinsong (Second Year PhD) for his paper accepted by Nature Communications.
[08/2025] Congratulations to Hao Xiang for his paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems.
[06/2025] Congratulations to Huang Beichen for his paper accepted by IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine.
[05/2025] We have two papers accepted by ICML 2025. Congratulations to Zhang Shimin and Wu Xingyu on this outstanding achievement!

Services

Associate Editor
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IF: 10.4)
Associate Editor
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (IF: 5.0)
Executive Committee Member
IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter

Research Team

Postdoc Fellows

Xingyu WU

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Large Foundation Models

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Causality-based Machine Learning

Rui LIU

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Deep Learning

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Neuroimaging Analysis

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Medical Image Computing

PhD Students

Hanglei ZHANG

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Audio/Speech Signal Processing

Shimin ZHANG

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Spiking Neural Network

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Audio Signal Processing

Yufei ZHANG

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Audio/Speech Signal Processing

Ruofan YAN

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Brain-computer Interface

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Computational Audition

Zhige CHEN

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Brain-computer Interface

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EEG Signal Processing

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Deep Transfer Learning

Xianwei CHEN

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Embodied Intelligence

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Learning for Robotics

Yuhong CHOU

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Linear Fundation Models

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Large Language Models

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Conditional Computation

Beichen HUANG

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High-performance Evolutionary Computation

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Neuro-evolution

Yinsong YAN

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Brain-inspired Computing

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Spiking Neural Networks

Yu ZHOU

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Federated Learning

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Evolutionary Computation

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Deep Reinforcement Learning

Ziyuan YE

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NeuroAI

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AGI

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Deep Learning

Yajie ZHANG

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Multimodal Biomedical AI

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Causal Inference

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Domain Adaptation

Xiang HAO

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Audio/Speech Signal Processing

Xinyi CHEN

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Neuromorphic Computing

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Spiking Neural Network

Chenxiang MA

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Spiking Neural Network

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Local Learning

Zeyang SONG

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Speech Processing

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Spiking Neural Network

Research Assistants

Zehao LIU

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Large Language Model

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Machine Learning System

Wenlong YOU

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Multimodal Learning

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Brain Computer Interface

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Signal Processing

Shu PENG

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EEG Source Imaging

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Brain Computer Interface

Mengqi XU

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Machine Learning

Visiting Students

Kexin SHI

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Speech Signal Processing

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Spiking Neural Network

Hanwen LIU

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Neuromorphic Hardware

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Spiking Neural Network

Alumni

Qu YANG
Ph.D. Student2020 - 2024
AI Researcher, Huawei (Singapore)

Award

First Prize with Cash Prize of USD 15,000
IEEE CIS FLAME Technical Challenge 2024 2024
Best Paper Award
IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2024
Track 1 (Algorithmic) Winner with Cash Prize of USD 15,000
Intel Neuromorphic Deep Noise Suppression Challenge 2023
Second Prize of Final Contest with Cash Prize of RMB 60,000
International Collegiate Competition for Brain-inspired Computing 2019
Tsinghua University, China (Team Leader)
President’s Graduate Fellowship
National University of Singapore 2019 – 2020
First Prize of Final Contest with Cash Prize of RMB 100,000
International Collegiate Competition for Brain-inspired Computing 2018
Tsinghua University, China (Team Leader)
Best Presentation Award
2018 Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Student Symposium 2018
National University of Singapore

Recent Publications

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Jian Yao, Ran Cheng, Xingyu Wu, Jibin Wu, Kay Chen Tan (2025). Diversity-Aware Policy Optimization for Large Language Model Reasoning. In The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (Spotlight).

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Yu Zhou, Xingyu Wu, Jibin Wu*, Liang Feng, KCTan (2025). HM3: Hierarchical Multi-Objective Model Merging for Pretrained Models. In The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (Spotlight).

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Yuhong Chou, Zehao Liu, Rui-Jie Zhu, Xinyi Wan, Tianjian Li, Congying Chu, Qian Liu, Jibin Wu*, Zejun Ma (2025). ZeCO: Zero-Communication Overhead Sequence Parallelism for Linear Attention. In The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.

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Xiang Hao, Jibin Wu*, Jianwei Yu, Chenlin Xu, Kay Chen Tan (2025). Typing to Listen at the Cocktail Party: Text-Guided Target Speaker Extraction. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems.

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Shimin Zhang, Ziyuan Ye, Yinsong Yan, Zeyang Song, Yujie Wu, Jibin Wu* (2025). KoopSTD: Reliable Similarity Analysis between Dynamical Systems via Approximating Koopman Spectrum with Timescale Decoupling. The 42rd International Conference on Machine Learning, Vancouver, Canada..

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