Eric Z. Chen

I am a first year Master of Science in Computer Science student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) advised by Prof. Yuxiong Wang. My current research interests are in video diffusion and multimodal models.

Previously, I received my Bachelor of Science in Statistics and Computer Science from UIUC in December 2023. I was also a visiting student at UC Merced working with Prof. Prof. Ming-Hsuan Yang from Summer to Fall 2023.

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Publications + Posters

YouTubePD-LLM: LLM Guided Parkinson's Disease Progression and Augmentation with a Multi-modal Benchmark
Eric Chen, Jiahua Dong, Yuxiong Wang
TTIC Summer Workshop on Multimodal Artificial Intelligence, 2024
[Poster]

Telling Left from Right: Identifying Geometry-Aware Semantic Correspondence
Junyi Zhang, Charles Herrmann, Junhwa Hur, Eric Chen, Varun Jampani, Deqing Sun, Ming-Hsuan Yang
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
[Project Page] [Arxiv]

Experience
Sayari (May 2025 - Present)
Machine Learning Engineer Intern
  • Working on weakly supervised entity recognition in distributed large-scale data
UIUC Yuxiong Lab (September 2023 - Present)
Undergraduate/Graduate Researcher, advised by Prof. Yuxiong Wang
  • Work on integrating motion conditioning into video diffusion models to simulate Parkinson's Disease symptoms
Google (June 2023 - December 2023)
Research Project Member, advised by Prof. Ming-Hsuan Yang
  • Utilized deep SDXL features to improve geometric awareness in semantic correspondence
UIUC Forward Data Lab (May 2022 - December 2023)
Undergraduate Researcher, advised by Prof. Kevin CC Chang
  • Developed LLM agent for web content extraction and summary generation with citations
  • Work on Living Encyclopedia project - automatically generate accurate wiki pages for universities
AbbVie (May 2021 - Aug 2021)
Software Engineer Intern
  • Developed web application that allows users to input parameters and outputs a Markov health state transition model in Excel, and creates visualizations to show anticapted health impacts and drug costs
Teaching

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Hobbies

Working out, basketball, soccer, hiking

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