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

Junming Chen

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AI Research Scientist @ Meta

Bay Area, CA, US

Exploring Multimodal Gen AI, MLLMs, Agentic Self-improving AI, Digital Humans, and Embodied AI.

About Me

I am an AI Research Scientist at Meta, working on multimodal generative models and multimodal large language models. 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 Generative Models

Image and video generation, embodied motion generation, world models & world action models.

Multimodal LLMs

Pre-training and post-training of MLLMs, unified visual understanding and generation.

Agentic AI

Self-improving AI Agent, AI Autoresearch Scientist Agent, Computer-Use Agent, Social Intelligent Agent, RL for Agents.

Embodied AI

Developing realistic digital humans and humanoid robots with expressive physically-grounded motions, and embodied intelligence.

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, ECCV, NeurIPS, 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.