Tsai-Shien Chen
Ph.D. Candidate at UC Merced
Captured at the stunning Santa Monica Beach, where I spent the summers of 2023 through 2025.
Biography
Welcome! I am a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate at UC Merced, advised by Prof. Ming-Hsuan Yang. I am also a research intern at the Snap Creative Vision team, where I am privileged to work with Aliaksandr Siarohin, Sergey Tulyakov, Jun-Yan Zhu, and Kfir Aberman. Previously, I did my M.S. and B.S. at National Taiwan University.
My research centers on multimodal, compositional, and personalized models in Generative AI, aiming to enable more immersive and intuitive content creation.
NEW! Deeply honored to be awarded the 2025 Google PhD Fellowship.
NEW! Looking for research internship positions starting from 2026.
News
Nov 2025 NEW!
Canvas-to-Image was released. Explore our unified model that enables multimodal compositional control through a single canvas.
Oct 2025 NEW!
LayerComposer was released. Explore our frontier model that brings a Photoshop-like personalization experience.
Oct 2025 NEW!
Awarded 2025 Google PhD Fellowship in Machine Perception.
July 2025
Granted two U.S. patents related to a video dataset and a video foundation model.
July 2025
Invited talk at Anuttacon on video datasets, foundation and application models.
May 2025
Started my third research internship with the Snap Creative Vision team.
Feb 2025
Video Alchemist was accepted to CVPR 2025.
June 2024
Awarded the Graduate Student Opportunity Program fellowship (full tuition).
Sep 2024
VIMI was accepted to EMNLP 2025 in the main conference track.
Feb 2024
Panda-70M was accepted to CVPR 2024.
Feb 2024
Snap Video was accepted to CVPR 2024 as a highlight presentation (2.8% acceptance rate).
Selected Projects
Check the full publication list in CV
Incremental False Negative Detection for Contrastive Learning
ICLR 2022
