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

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 team 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, video, and world generation, with the goal of enabling more immersive content creation.

My research is supported by the 2025 Google PhD Fellowship and the Graduate Student Opportunity Program Fellowship (one year of full tuition and stipend).

NEW! I am currently seeking industry research positions starting in late 2026.

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

May 2026 NEW!
Selected as CVPR 2026 Outstanding Reviewers (top 5% of reviewers).
April 2026 NEW!
Selected to participate CVPR 2026 Doctoral Consortium.
April 2026 NEW!
Invited talk at ByteDance: "From Data to Director: Towards Controllable and Personalized Movie Generation".
March 2026 NEW!
Canvas-to-Image was accepted to SIGGRAPH 2026.
March 2026 NEW!
Joined Adobe Research as a Research Intern working with Richard Zhang and Eli Shechtman.
Feb 2026
Omni-Attribute and AlcheMinT were accepted to CVPR 2026.
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 (one year of full tuition and stipend) from UC Merced.
Sep 2024
VIMI was accepted to EMNLP 2024.
Feb 2024
Panda-70M and Snap Video were accepted to CVPR 2024, with Snap Video selected as Highlight Presentation.
May 2023
Joined Snap Creative Vision team as a Research Intern working with Aliaksandr Siarohin and Sergey Tulyakov.
April 2023
Received Best Master Thesis of the Year Award from NTU GIEE.

Selected Projects

Check the full publication list in CV