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
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 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)
May 2023
Joined Snap Creative Vision team as a Research Intern

Selected Projects

Check the full publication list in CV