Summary
Joya Chen is a final-year Ph.D. candidate at NUS and a research intern at ByteDance Seed specializing in large multimodal models for video, with nine years of research and engineering experience across industry leaders like Meta and TikTok. Her work spans data scaling, model architecture, pre- and post-training, and benchmarking, with contributions to streaming-capable systems and interactive demos (Seed1.5-VL) and live streaming VideoLLM research. She has co-authored projects presented at top venues (CVPR) and helped build large-scale datasets and processing pipelines such as Ego-Exo4D and LiveCC. Comfortable at the intersection of academic rigor and production-facing research, she repeatedly focuses on online and streaming multimodal problems that bridge real-time interaction and world modeling. Based in Singapore and graduating summer 2026, she is actively pursuing industrial research roles and welcomes collaboration and contact via email. An intriguing personal touch: her GitHub bio—“Hopes never die”—hints at a resilient, long-term commitment to ambitious research goals.
9 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Science and Technology of China
Bachelor's degree, Vehicle Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Vehicle Engineering at 武汉理工大学
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore