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.
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!
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
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 Snap Creative Vision team as a Research Intern.
Selected Projects
Check the full publication list in CV
Incremental False Negative Detection for Contrastive Learning
ICLR 2022
