About
Hello! I am a Senior Machine Learning Research Scientist at Netflix in the US. My research spans image and video generation and editing, digital humans, and 3D vision and graphics, with a focus on VFX applications.
My work includes large-scale DiT-based image and video generation model development, mid-training and post-training, real-time image editing models built from scratch, and distillation for faster inference. I also work on digital face animation, editing, and identity swapping. I work end-to-end across data collection, annotation, filtering, agent-driven dataset generation, and model training, evaluation, and deployment.
Prior to joining Netflix, I completed my PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Christian Theobalt and co-supervision of Dr. Vladislav Golyanik at Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany, graduating summa cum laude. My doctoral research focused on physics-based monocular 3D human motion capture and animation synthesis with environment interactions, as well as non-rigid deformation capture for hand–face interactions.
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Publications
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Experiences
Research Scientist at Netflix, U.S.
Research intern at Google, Switzerland
Ph.D. Candidate in Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence department at Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik , Germany
Research assistant at German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany
Talks
Information science and technology forum (FIT), Japan 2022
International Ego4D Workshop, Telaviv 2022 (our research work “UnrealEgo: A New Dataset for Robust Egocentric 3D Human Motion Capture” was invited in the workshop.)
Human Body, Hands, and Activities from Egocentric and Multi-view Cameras (HBHA), Telaviv 2022 (Invited poster presentation)
Visual Computing + VC Communications, Japan 2021
Physics-based Human Motion Capture, Snap Research, US 2021
Integration of Explicit Physics into Motion Capture Pipeline, Peking University, China 2021
Awards & Honors
Best paper finalist at CVPR 2022
Best student paper at 3DV 2022
Scholarship grant from German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 2017
Scholarship grant from Waseda University (Azusa Ono Memorial Scholarship), 2011
Reviewer Experience
ACM TOG, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, CVPR, ECCV, TPAMI, CG Forum, 3DV, TVCG, IROS