Di Liu
Research Scientist @ Meta

Brief Bio. I am currently a Research Scientist at Meta Reality Labs, working on foundational research in Generative AI for the Metaverse. I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Rutgers University, advised by Board of Governors Professor Dimitris N. Metaxas. Prior to this, I studied in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Johns Hopkins University and Technion. Before college, I studied at Beijing National Day School.

My current research interests lie primarily in (1) Computer Vision and Computer Graphics; (2) Large-scale multi-modality pretraining and foundation models for visual understanding.

Email: di.liu [at] rutgers [dot] edu

Background

Experience

Jul. 2025 - Present
Reality Labs, Meta Platforms, Inc. Seattle, WA, USA
AI Research Scientist.
  • Foundational Research on GenAI for the Metaverse, e.g., 3D/4D Generation, Character Animation, and Multi-modality Perception.
May 2025 - Jul. 2025
Amazon Fashion, Amazon.com, Inc. Seattle, WA, USA
Applied Scientist Intern.
  • Multi-modal LLMs and Diffusion Models for Personalized Recommendation and Stylized Content Generation.
Jan 2025 - May 2025
Snap Research, Snap Inc. New York City, NY, USA
Research Scientist Intern.
May 2024 - Nov. 2024
Codec Avatars Team, Reality Labs Research, Meta Platforms, Inc. Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Research Scientist Intern.
  • Universal Layered Codec Avatar Reconstruction from Videos. [CVPR'25]
Jan. 2024 - May. 2024
Cognition, Cloud & AI, Microsoft Corporation. Redmond, WA, USA
Research Scientist Intern.
  • Large-scale Multi-modality Pretraining and Vision-language Models for Visual Understanding.
Jun. 2023 - Dec. 2023
Media Analytics Team, NEC Labs America, Inc. San Jose, CA, USA
Research Intern.
  • Instantaneous Perception of Moving Objects in 3D. [CVPR'24]
Sept. 2021 - Jun. 2025
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Graduate Assistant. Supervised by: Prof. Dimitris N. Metaxas

Selected Publications

(Please check Google Scholar for the full list of my publications.)