Junming Chen - AI Research Scientist at Meta, specializing in Multimodal AI and Digital Humans

Junming Chen

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AI Research Scientist @ Meta

Burlingame, CA, US

Exploring Multimodal Gen AI, MLLMs, Social AI Agents, Digital Humans, and Embodied AI.

About Me

I am an AI Research Scientist at Meta. I obtained my PhD in AI at HKUST in 2025, advised by Prof. Qifeng Chen. I previously obtained my Bachelor's degree with highest honor from Computer Science program at Hongyi Honor College, Wuhan University (WHU) in China.

I was fortunate to have two Research Scientist Internships at Meta in 2025 and 2024, focusing on Social AI Agents and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). In Fall 2023, I visited Prof. Xiaolong Wang's group at UCSD. Before that, I was a Research Intern at the International Digital Economy Academy (IDEA), mentored by Dr. Yu Li, where I worked on digital humans and motion generation. Before joining HKUST, I was fortunate to work with Prof. Qi Dou, Prof. Junsong Yuan, and Prof. Tomizuka.

Education

  • Ph.D. in AI, HKUST, 2025
  • B.Eng. in CS, Wuhan University, 2019

Research Interests

My recent research interests include:

Multimodal Gen AI

Developing novel generative AI models for multimodal content creation, including audio, video, and 3D generation.

Multimodal LLMs

Building and advancing Multimodal Large Language Models that can understand and generate across multiple modalities.

Social AI Agents

Creating AI agents capable of natural social interactions, including conversational dynamics and human-like behaviors.

Digital Human & Embodied AI

Developing realistic digital humans with expressive gestures and motion generation, and embodied AI systems.

Selected Publications

For a complete list, please visit my Google Scholar profile.

Teaching & Services

TA

COMP4471 & ELEC4240

Fall 2022, HKUST

Deep Learning in Computer Vision

TA

COMP5214 & ELEC5680

Spring 2022, HKUST

Advanced Deep Learning Architectures

Reviewer

CVPR, Siggraph, AAAI, ACM Multimedia, and WACV

Misc

I have been playing the violin since 8, and I love singing also.

I love table tennis and served on the table tennis team of the CS department at WHU.