Jing Wen

I’m a final-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at UIUC, advised by Prof. Shenlong Wang and Prof. Alex Schwing.

My research focuses on digital avatars, with an emphasis on efficient, photorealistic, and animatable avatar reconstruction, as well as motion understanding.

Before joining UIUC, I received my Master of Language Technologies from CMU and B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology from Tsinghua University.

Check my latest Curriculum Vitae here.

Publications

Seeing Without Eyes: 4D Human-Scene Understanding from Wearable IMUs

Hao-Yu Hsu*, Tianhang Cheng*, Jing Wen, Alex Schwing, Shenlong Wang

ArXiv 2026

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NoPo-Avatar: Generalizable and Animatable Avatars from Sparse Inputs without Human Poses

Jing Wen, Alex Schwing, Shenlong Wang

NeurIPS 2025

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LIFe-GoM: Generalizable Human Rendering with Learned Iterative Feedback Over Multi-Resolution Gaussians-on-Mesh

Jing Wen, Alex Schwing, Shenlong Wang

ICLR 2025

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GoMAvatar: Efficient Animatable Human Modeling from Monocular Video Using Gaussians-on-Mesh

Jing Wen, Xiaoming Zhao, Zhongzheng Ren, Alex Schwing, Shenlong Wang

CVPR 2024

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Track, Check, Repeat: An EM Approach to Unsupervised Tracking

Adam Harley, Yiming Zuo*, Jing Wen*, Ayush Mangal, Shubhankar Potdar, Ritwick Chaudhry, Katerina Fragkiadaki

CVPR 2021

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Vocabulary-Wide Credit Assignment for Training Image Captioning Models

Han Liu, Shifeng Zhang, Ke Lin, Jing Wen, Jianmin Li, Xiaolin Hu

Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) 2020

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Internships

Research Scientist Intern @ Meta Reality Labs

Project: Time-consistent Controllable Human Animation with Diffusion Models

Mentors: Dr. Stephane Grabli, Dr. Yuanlu Xu, Dr. Tony Tung, Dr. Bharat Bhatnagar and Dr. Emanuel Garbin

Engineering Practicum Intern @ Google

Project: Boq and Apps Framework based Mobile Harness Front End V5

Mentors: Mr. Keyi Gui and Mr. Wenshan Fu