Bio

I am a Lecturer in Machine Learning at the Department of Computer Science, the University of Sheffield, UK. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Imperial Computer Vision and Learning Lab of Imperial College London working with Dr. Tae-Kyun Kim and a Postdoctoral researcher at Department of Automation of Tsinghua University working with Prof. Jie Zhou and Prof. Jiwen Lu. I received my Ph.D. from Tsinghua University under the supervision of Prof. Jie Zhou and Prof. Jiwen Lu. My research interest lies in 3D vision on human - the perception of 3D humans by machine and large scale retrieval.

Working with me?

Opening: There is a fully funded PhD opportunity to work with me on Foundation Models and Human Motion through the EPSRC DLA program. Application deadline 15th Jan 2026. More details on this [link].

I am always looking for motivated PhD students to work with me on computer vision and machine learning. Funding is available on a competitive basis. For informal enquiries about the research or positions, please email me indicating your areas of interest and including your CV.
Collaboration and visiting are also welcome. Please drop me an email if you are interested in working with me.

Publications

HOI-Dyn: Learning Interaction Dynamics for Human-Object Motion Diffusion
NeurIPS 2025
Lin Wu,Zhixiang Chen, Jianglin Lan
Sequential Joint Dependency Aware Human Pose Estimation with State Space Model
AAAI 2025
Hanxi Yin, Shaodi You, Jungong Han, Zhixiang Chen
MAPConNet: Self-supervised 3D Pose Transfer with Mesh and Point Contrastive Learning
ICCV 2023
Jiaze Sun, Zhixiang Chen, Tae-Kyun Kim
Learning Feature Aggregation for Deep 3D Morphable Models
CVPR 2021
Zhixiang Chen, Tae-Kyun Kim
Distance-Normalized Unified Representation for Monocular 3D Detection
ECCV 2020
Xuepeng Shi, Zhixiang Chen, Tae-Kyun Kim