Tsai-Shien Chen

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. Mukesh Singhal. I am currently a Research Intern at Adobe Research working with Richard Zhang and Eli Shechtman. Prior to that, I was a Research Intern at Snap Creative Vision working with Aliaksandr Siarohin, Sergey Tulyakov, Jun-Yan Zhu, and Kfir Aberman. I received my M.S. and B.S. at National Taiwan University.

My research centers on controllable and personalized image and video synthesis, aiming to enable more immersive and intuitive content creation.

I was honored to receive the 2025 Google PhD Fellowship.

2026 March - Now

Research Intern @ Adobe Research

2023 May - 2026 March

Research Intern @ Snap Inc.

2022 Aug - Now

Ph.D. @ UC Merced

2015 Sep - 2022 March

B.S. and M.S. @ NTU

News

March 2026 NEW!
Canvas-to-Image was accepted to SIGGRAPH 2026.
March 2026 NEW!
Joined Adobe Research as a Research Intern.
Feb 2026 NEW!
Omni-Attribute and AlcheMinT were accepted to CVPR 2026 in the main conference.
Dec 2025
Granted a U.S. patent related to a video dataset.
Dec 2025
Invited talk at AI Time: "From Personalization Models towards Movie Generator". Watch on Bilibili.
Oct 2025
Awarded 2025 Google PhD Fellowship in Machine Perception.
July 2025
Invited talk at Anuttacon: "Learning Video Generation and Personalization from Large-Scale Datasets".
Feb 2025
Video Alchemist was accepted to CVPR 2025.
June 2024
Awarded Graduate Student Opportunity Program fellowship (1-year full tuition and stipend).
Sep 2024
VIMI was accepted to EMNLP 2024 in the main conference.
Feb 2024
Panda-70M and Snap Video were accepted to CVPR 2024, with Snap Video selected as a Highlight.
May 2023
Joined Snap Creative Vision team as a Research Intern.

Selected Projects

Check the full publication list in CV