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.
News
July 2025 NEW!
Granted two U.S. patents related to a video dataset and a video foundation model
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
Incremental False Negative Detection for Contrastive Learning
ICLR 2022
