Experience

 

Awards and Fellowships

  • Snap Research Fellowship Semi-Finalist Snap Research, 2022.
  • Graduate Student Opportunity Program Fellowship (top 2 research achievement), UC Merced, 2022.
  • Bobcat Fellowship (outstanding research achievement), UC Merced, 2022.
  • Undergraduate Innovation Award (top 3 research projects), NTU, 2016.
  • Presidential Award (top 5% academic performance), NTU, 2009.

 

Education

(Aug 2019 – Dec 2023)

University of California, Merced, CA, USA

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (GPA: 4.0/4.0)

Advisor: Prof. Ming-Hsuan Yang

 

(Aug 2017 – Mar 2019)

University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science (GPA: 3.97/4.0)

Research advisors: Prof. Manmohan Chandraker and Prof. Chung-Kuan Cheng

 

(Sep 2012 – June 2016)

National Taiwan University (NTU),Taipei, Taiwan

Bachelor of Science (BS) in Electrical Engineering (major GPA: 4.17/4.3)

Research advisor: Prof. Shao-Yi Chien

 

Work Experience

Research

  • Stability AI, CA, USA
    • Research Scientist (Jan. 2024 – Present)
    • 3D/4D Generation
    • Manager: Varun Jampani
  • Reality Labs Research (Meta), Sausalito, CA, USA
    • Research Scientist Intern (Jun. 2023 – Oct 2023)
    • Captuing 3D Human Body from Monocular Inputs
    • Mentors: Tony Tung, Nikolaos Sarafianos
  • Google Research, Remote, CA, USA
    • Student Researcher (Feb. 2022 – Jun. 2023)
    • Learning 3D Articulated Shapes from Sparse Image Ensemble (LASSIE, Hi-LASSIE, ARTIC3D)
    • Mentor: Varun Jampani
  • Adobe Research, San Jose, CA, USA
    • Student Researcher (Mar. 2021 – Jan. 2022)
    • Learning Visibility for Robust Dense Human Body Estimation (VisDB)
    • Mentor: Jimei Yang
  • Google Research, Mountain View, CA, USA
    • Research Intern (Mar. 2020 – Mar. 2021)
    • Federated Multi-target Domain Adaptation (DualAdapt)
    • Mentor: Boqing Gong
  • Bytedance AI Lab, Palo Alto, CA, USA
    • Research Intern (Mar. 2019 – Aug. 2019)
    • Real-time Video Object Detection by Tracking
    • Mentors: Xiaohui Shen, Chen Fang, Yangyue Wan
  • Verizon Media (Oath/Yahoo), Sunnyvale, CA, USA
    • Software Engineer Intern (Jun. 2018 – Sep. 2018)
    • Content Extraction from Images (Coupon Detection, Optical Character Recogni- tion, Name Entity Recognition)
    • Mentors: Sridharan P, Umang Patel
  • CSE at UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
    • Research Assistant (Mar. 2018 – Dec. 2018)
    • 3D Reconstruction for Defect Detection via Generative Adversarial Networks
    • Advisor: Manmohan Chandraker

Teaching Experience

  • UC Merced, CA, USA
    • Teaching Assistant for CSE 185: Introduction to Computer Vision (Spring 2021)
    • Teaching Assistant for CSE 005: Introduction to Computer Applications (Fall 2020)
    • Teaching Assistant for CSE 140: Computer Architecture (Spring 2020)
    • Teaching Assistant for CSE 020: Introduction to Computing [Java Programming] (Fall 2019)