Xiuping Jia is a Chinese-Australian electrical engineer and image processing researcher whose topics of interest include image classification, photogrammetry, remote sensing, and hyperspectral imaging. She is an associate professor of electrical engineering in the School of Engineering and Information Technology at the Australian Defence Force Academy (Canberra) campus of the University of New South Wales (UNSW). She also holds an affiliation through the Innovative 1000 Talents Plan with the Sino-Australian Joint Research Center for Coastal Zone Management, a joint research project of UNSW with the Ocean University of China.