About Me

Hello! My name is Haotian Xia (夏浩天). I am a first-year Statistics Master’s student at the University of California, Irvine, advised by Weining Shen. My research interests lie in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Multimodal AI, and Sports Analytics. Prior to UCI, I completed my bachelor’s degree with distinction in Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where I was advised by Yuan-Fang Wang and Linda Petzold.

I enjoy gaming and playing sports. I have been playing volleyball for 17 years and was a former NCAA Division 1 student-athlete on the UCSB Men’s Volleyball Team with an athletic scholarship. I am also a National Level Athlete (国家一级运动员) in China.

If you want to discuss sports analytics research with me, feel free to write me an email.