Pinxin Liu
Exploring the convergence of vision, language, and motion

Hi! 👋

I am a student, supervised by Dr. Chenliang Xu, in Computer Science department at University of Rochester. My research interests are Multi-modal Learning and Computer Graphics, including Multi-modal Large Language Models, Digital Human Rendering/Motion Synthesis, and Video Generation.

Previously, I was an undergraduate student who received the highest honor distinction in research Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the University of Rochester.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Multi-modal Learning

Vision-language models and multi-modal understanding

Digital Humans

Realistic avatar rendering and animation

Video Generation

Motion synthesis and video creation techniques

Co-Speech Gesture

Generating natural gestures from speech

ACADEMIC JOURNEY
May 2025 - Present

Research Scientist Intern, Meta Reality Lab

Jan 2025 - Present

PhD in Computer Science, University of Rochester

May 2024 - Dec 2024

Research Scientist Intern, FlawlessAI

July 2020 - May 2024

BS in Computer Science with Highest Honor, University of Rochester

NEWS
  • [09/2025] One co-author paper accepted Cell Reports Methods.
  • [09/2025] One co-author paper accepted NeurIPS 2025.
  • [06/2025] Two first-author papers accepted ICCV 2025.
  • [06/2025] One first-author paper accepted ACM Multimedia 2025.
  • [06/2025] Two first-author papers accepted ICCV 2025.
  • [03/2025] I will join Meta Reality Lab as a Research Scientist Intern.
  • [11/2024] One first author paper accepted 3DV 2025.
  • [09/2024] One co-author paper accepted Siggraph Asia 2024.
  • [07/2024] One first author paper accepted ECCV 2024.
  • [06/2024] Joined FlawlessAI as a Research Scientist Intern.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
  1. Contextual Gesture
    Contextual Gesture: Co-Speech Gesture Video Generation through Context-aware Gesture Representation Pinxin Liu, Pengfei Zhang, Hyeongwoo Kim, Pablo Garrido, Ari Sharpio and Kyle Olszewski. ACM Multimedia 2025
  2. Ai4Anime
    Generative AI for Cel-Animation: A Survey Yunlong Tang, Junjia Guo, Pinxin Liu, Zhiyuan Wang, Hang Hua, Jia-Xing Zhong, Yunzhong Xiao, Chao Huang, Luchuan Song, Susan Liang and 7 more authors. ICCV 2025
  3. Ai4Anime
    Video Understanding with Large Language Models: A Survey Yunlong Tang*, Jing Bi*, Siting Xu*, Luchuan Song, Susan Liang, Teng Wang, ...,Pinxin Liu, Mingqian Feng, Feng Zheng, Jianguo Zhang, Ping Luo, Jiebo Luo, and Chenliang Xu. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
  4. GestureLSM
    GestureLSM: Latent Shortcut based Co-Speech Gesture Generation with Spatial-Temporal Modeling Pinxin Liu, Luchuan Song, Junhua Huang, Haiyang Liu and Chenliang Xu. ICCV 2025
  5. KinMo
    KinMo: Kinematic-aware Human Motion Understanding and Generation Pinxin Liu*, Pengfei Zhang*, Hyeongwoo Kim, Pablo Garrido and Bindita Chaudhuri. ICCV 2025
TEACHING
  • 2025 Fall CSC 2/445: Deep Learning
    Instructor: Dr. Chengliang Xu
  • 2024 Spring CSC 2/449: Machine Vision
    Instructor: Dr. Chengliang Xu
  • 2023 FALL CSC 446: Machine Learning
    Instructor: Dr. Daniel Gildea
  • 2023 SPRING CSC 2/447: Nature Language Processing
    Instructor: Dr. Hangfeng He
  • 2022 Fall CSC 2/448: Statistical Speech and Language Processing
    Instructor: Dr. Daniel Gildea
REVIEWING

CVPR 2024, 2025, 2026, EMNLP 2023, KDD 2024, AAAI 2024, ICLR 2025, 2026,3DV 2025, 2026, NeurIPS 2025

SKILLS
Programming Languages
Python
C++
Java
Machine Learning
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Deep Learning
NLP
Computer Vision
Computer Vision
3D Graphics
Tools & Technologies
CUDA
Linux
Git
LaTeX
Soft Skills
Research Methods
Technical Writing