About Me

I am currently a research engineer at Meta.

I architected Meta's largest 3D human-centric data engine, from data curation to various mid-level representations for internet-scale videos.

My research interest lies in human understanding, self-supervised learning and conditional multimodal video generation. I am interested in building foundation models that can understand motions, behaviors, and interactions with the physical world.

Education & Experience
2020 - Present
Research Engineer
Meta
2018 - 2019
M.S. in Computer Vision (MSCV)
Carnegie Mellon University
2014 - 2018
B.S. in Automation
Tsinghua University

Publications

ECCV 2026
LUNA: Learning Universal 3D Human Animation Beyond Skinning
Peng Li, Rawal Khirodkar, Junxuan Li, Yuan Dong, Chen Cao, Yuan Liu, Wenhan Luo, Yike Guo, Shunsuke Saito
Large-scale Codec Avatars teaser
CVPR 2026
Large-scale Codec Avatars: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Large-scale Avatar Pretraining
Junxuan Li*, Rawal Khirodkar*, Chengan He, Zhongshi Jiang, Giljoo Nam, Lingchen Yang, Jihyun Lee, Egor Zakharov, Zhaoen Su, Rinat Abdrashitov, Yuan Dong, Julieta Martinez, Kai Li, Qingyang Tan, Takaaki Shiratori, Matthew Hu, Peihong Guo, Xuhua Huang, Ariyan Zarei, Marco Pesavento, Yichen Xu, He Wen, Teng Deng, Wyatt Borsos, Anjali Thakrar, Jean-Charles Bazin, Carsten Stoll, Ginés Hidalgo, James Booth, Lucy Wang, Xiaowen Ma, Yu Rong, Sairanjith Thalanki, Chen Cao, Christian Häne, Abhishek Kar, Sofien Bouaziz, Jason Saragih, Yaser Sheikh, Shunsuke Saito
DuoMo teaser
CVPR 2026
DuoMo: Dual Motion Diffusion for World-Space Human Reconstruction
Yufu Wang, Evonne Ng, Soyong Shin, Rawal Khirodkar, Yuan Dong, Zhaoen Su, Jinhyung Park, Kris Kitani, Alexander Richard, Fabian Prada, Michael Zollhöfer
Sapiens2 teaser
ICLR 2026
Sapiens2: High-Resolution Human-Centric Vision Models
Rawal Khirodkar, He Wen, Julieta Martinez, Yuan Dong, Su Zhaoen, Shunsuke Saito
MHR teaser
Tech Report
MHR: Momentum Human Rig
Aaron Ferguson, Ahmed A. A. Osman, Berta Bescos, Carsten Stoll, Chris Twigg, Christoph Lassner, David Otte, Eric Vignola, Fabian Prada, Federica Bogo, Igor Santesteban, Javier Romero, Jenna Zarate, Jeongseok Lee, Jinhyung Park, Jinlong Yang, John Doublestein, Kishore Venkateshan, Kris Kitani, Ladislav Kavan, Marco Dal Farra, Matthew Hu, Matthew Cioffi, Michael Fabris, Michael Ranieri, Mohammad Modarres, Petr Kadlecek, Rawal Khirodkar, Rinat Abdrashitov, Romain Prévost, Roman Rajbhandari, Ronald Mallet, Russell Pearsall, Sandy Kao, Sanjeev Kumar, Scott Parrish, Shoou-I Yu, Shunsuke Saito, Takaaki Shiratori, Te-Li Wang, Tony Tung, Yichen Xu, Yuan Dong, Yuhua Chen, Yuanlu Xu, Yuting Ye, Zhongshi Jiang
Codec Avatar Studio teaser
NeurIPS 2024
Codec Avatar Studio: Paired Human Captures for Complete, Driveable, and Generalizable Avatars
Julieta Martinez, Emily Kim, Javier Romero, Timur Bagautdinov, Shunsuke Saito, Shoou-I Yu, Stuart Anderson, Michael Zollhöfer, Te-Li Wang, Shaojie Bai, Chenghui Li, Shih-En Wei, Rohan Joshi, Wyatt Borsos, Tomas Simon, Jason Saragih, Paul Theodosis, Alexander Greene, Anjani Josyula, Silvio Mano Maeta, Andrew I Jewett, Simion Venshtain, Christopher Heilman, Yueh-Tung Chen, Sidi Fu, Mohamed Ezzeldin A. Elshaer, Tingfang Du, Longhua Wu, Shen-Chi Chen, Kai Kang, Michael Wu, Youssef Emad, Steven Longay, Ashley Brewer, Hitesh Shah, James Booth, Taylor Koska, Kayla Haidle, Matthew Andromalos, Joanna Ching-Hui Hsu, Thomas Dauer, Peter Selednik, Tim Godisart, Scott Ardisson, Matthew Cipperly, Ben Humberston, Lon Farr, Bob Hansen, Peihong Guo, Dave Braun, Steven Krenn, He Wen, Lucas Evans, Natalia Fadeeva, Matthew Stewart, Gabriel Schwartz, Divam Gupta, Gyeongsik Moon, Kaiwen Guo, Yuan Dong, Yichen Xu, Takaaki Shiratori, Fabian Andres Prada Nino, Bernardo R Pires, Bo Peng, Julia Buffalini, Autumn Trimble, Kevyn Alex Anthony McPhail, Melissa Robinson Schoeller, Yaser Sheikh
CVPR 2024
URHand: Universal Relightable Hands
Zhaoxi Chen, Gyeongsik Moon, Kaiwen Guo, Chen Cao, Stanislav Pidhorskyi, Tomas Simon, Rohan Joshi, Yuan Dong, Yichen Xu, Bernardo Pires, He Wen, Lucas Evans, Bo Peng, Julia Buffalini, Autumn Trimble, Kevyn McPhail, Melissa Schoeller, Shoou-I Yu, Javier Romero, Michael Zollhöfer, Yaser Sheikh, Ziwei Liu, Shunsuke Saito
Modeling Clothing teaser
SIGGRAPH Asia 2021
Modeling Clothing as a Separate Layer for an Animatable Human Avatar
Donglai Xiang, Fabian Prada, Timur Bagautdinov, Weipeng Xu, Yuan Dong, He Wen, Jessica Hodgins, Chenglei Wu
BodyFusion visual
ICCV 2017
BodyFusion: Real-time Capture of Human Motion and Surface Geometry Using a Single Depth Camera
Tao Yu, Kaiwen Guo, Feng Xu, Yuan Dong, Zhaoqi Su, Jianhui Zhao, Jianguo Li, Qionghai Dai, Yebin Liu

Services

Reviewer for CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, SIGGRAPH Asia, CGF, IEEE TMM.

Hobbies

I have been an avid board wargame player since college, spending ~1000 hours at the tables.

I also created and maintained one of the largest active board wargame communities in China for nearly 10 years.

I also write fanfics anonymously. One of my series (for Bandori) has accumulated 100k+ views on Bilibili.