Tsai-Shien Chen

Tsai-Shien Chen

Ph.D. 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 foundational and personalization models in Generative AI, which I see as cornerstones for bridging the power of AI agents with human creativity. Ultimately, I aim to enable more immersive and intuitive content creation.

2023 May - Now

Research Intern @ Snap

Creative Vision Team

2022 Aug. - Now

Ph.D. @ UC Merced

Vision and Learning Lab

2019 Sep. - 2022 March

M.S. @ NTU

Media IC & System Lab

News

July 2025 NEW!
Invited talk at Anuttacon on video datasets, foundation and application models
May 2025 NEW!
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 at UC Merced (one-year funded fellowship)
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 Spotlight Presentation

Selected Publications

Check the full publication list in CV