Chen Sunمشاهده پروفایل
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Chen Sun is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Brown University and a part-time Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind . His research bridges computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence , focusing on multimodal representation learning, visual commonsense, and controllable video generation . He directs the PALM🌴 research lab , which explores scalable models for robotic planning, video understanding, and human activity recognition . Chen Sun earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California (2016) , advised by Professor Ram Nevatia , and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Tsinghua University (2011) . His lab's work has been supported by Adobe, Honda, Meta, NASA, and Samsung , and he is affiliated with the NSF AI Research Institute on Interaction for AI Assistants . His research spans multimodal transformers, embodied agents, and physics-informed video generation . Key trends include Learning from unlabeled videos for human activity recognition Developing controllable generation techniques using motion trajectories and physics-based signals Advancing scalable frameworks for video-language tasks Scientific awards include the Brown University Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Award and Samsung Global Research Outreach Award . He has served as Workshop Chair (CVPR 2025) , Action Editor (TMLR) , and Area Chair for top conferences like ICLR, CVPR, and NeurIPS . Chen Sun mentors a dynamic team including Ph.D. students Apoorv Khandelwal (Presidential Fellow) Calvin Luo (Research Mobility Fellow) Nate Gillman (Math Department) Shijie Wang Tian Yun (co-advised with Ellie Pavlick) Yuan Zang Zilai Zeng Zitian Tang and alumni now pursuing Ph.D. programs at Princeton, Cornell, UBC, and UNC . His teaching portfolio includes graduate-level courses on Deep Learning (CSCI 2470) , Advanced Topics in Deep Learning (CSCI 2952N) , and a short course on Multimodal Transformers at ICASSP 2022 and AAAI 2023 .
- Computer Vision
- Deep Learning
- Machine Learning
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