Chris Chen is a Senior Research Scientist and tech leader based in San Jose with nine years of experience building large-scale video generation and multimodal AI, currently driving Seedance 2.0 at ByteDance. He combines deep academic training—a Ph.D. in Computer Vision and Graphics—with hands-on industry impact from Tencent and startups, earning multiple awards including Tencent STAR and a Seed Spot Bonus. His work spans video and human motion generation, audio-visual foundation models, and embodied humanoid agents, with a practical focus on human-centered generative AI. Known for quickly turning novel ideas into production-capable systems, he also has a track record of leading intern projects to product features and awards.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master Student, Computer Science, Master Student, Computer Science at ShanghaiTech University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Vision and Graphics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Vision and Graphics at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bachelor's degree, Electronic Information, Bachelor's degree, Electronic Information at Qingdao University of Technology
[NeurIPS 2023] MotionGPT: Human Motion as a Foreign Language, a unified motion-language generation model using LLMs
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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