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. I am currently a Research Intern at Snap Creative Vision team working 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 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.

2023 May - Now

Research Intern @ Snap

2022 Aug. - Now

Ph.D. @ UC Merced

2019 Sep. - 2022 March

M.S. @ NTU

News

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 on our latest personalization models towards movie generator. Watch on Bilibili.
Oct 2025
Awarded 2025 Google PhD Fellowship in Machine Perception.
July 2025
Invited talk at Anuttacon on video datasets, foundation and application models.
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 the Snap Creative Vision team as a research intern.

Selected Projects

Check the full publication list in CV