Eric M. Chen

I am a PhD student at MIT, where I'm advised by Professor Vincent Sitzmann and am a member of the Scene Representation Group.

These days my research is centered around embodied intelligence. I got my start in research as an undergrad, where I did work on topics related to computer vision and content creation.

My Research Projects

Pocket Time-Lapse

SIGGRAPH 2025

A system to record, explore, and visualize long-term changes in the environment with your mobile phone.

Snapmoji

WACV 2026

A technique to create and animate Bitmoji-style avatars of a user from their selfie. Work done during an internship at Snap Inc.

Riemannian ResNets

NeurIPS 2023

A method to extend residual neural networks to general Riemannian manifolds via the exponential map.

Ray Conditioning

ICCV 2023

One of the first papers to demonstrate geometry-free novel view synthesis on photo-realistic images.

What's in a Decade?

Eurographics 2023

A dataset and a method to reimagine what somebody would have looked like in the style of another decade.

List of Publications

Snapmoji: Instant Generation of Animatable Dual-Stylized Avatars. E. M. Chen, D. Liu, S. Ma, M. Vasilkovsky, B. Zhou, Q. Gao, W. Wang, J. Luo, D. N. Metaxas, V. Sitzmann, J. Wang (WACV 2026).
Pocket Time-Lapse. E. M. Chen, Ž. Kovačič, M. Aggarwal, A. Davis (SIGGRAPH 2025).
Riemannian Residual Neural Networks. I. Katsman, E. M. Chen, S. Holalkere, A. Asch, A. Lou, S. Lim, C. De Sa (NeurIPS 2023).
Ray Conditioning: Trading Photo-consistency for Photo-realism in Multi-view Image Generation. E. M. Chen, S. Holalkere, R. Yan, K. Zhang, A. Davis (ICCV 2023).
What’s in a Decade? Transforming Faces Through Time. E. M. Chen, J. Sun, A. Khandelwal, D. Lischinski, N. Snavely, H. Averbuch-Elor (Eurographics 2023).