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Chenyang Qi戚晨洋

Research Scientist · Google

I am a Research Scientist at Google, working on the Gemini Omni project, where I focus on real-time, interactive, high-resolution video generation under the supervision of Yael Pritch and Peyman Milanfar. Before Google, I was a Research Scientist at Tencent, training the diffusion–autoregressive model HunyuanImage 3.0.

My research lies in multimodal generative AI, especially image and video synthesis. I am interested in building AI systems that simulate our dynamic visual world with creative control, and bring real-time interactive experiences to human beings.

I received my Ph.D. from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), advised by Prof. Qifeng Chen, and my B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University with a National Scholarship from Chu Kochen Honors College, advised by Prof. Wenyuan Xu.

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Mountain View, California Zhejiang University, China
📣 We are hiring! Our team is recruiting talented interns on image and video generation. Drop me an email if you are interested in collaboration or internships.

News & Highlights View all →

  • Jun 2026PaperGenerative Manifold Distillation (image restoration) is accepted by ECCV 2026.
  • May 2026ReleaseGemini Omni Flash is released via the Gemini API, following its announcement at Google I/O 2026.
  • Feb 2026PaperTea-Adapter (video control) is accepted by CVPR 2026 — see you in Denver!
  • Jan 2026PaperFollow-Your-Motion (motion transfer) is accepted by ICLR 2026.
  • Sep 2025ReleaseHunyuanImage 3.0 is open-sourced.
  • Feb 2025PaperOne paper on image editing with planning and reasoning is accepted by CVPR 2025.
  • Oct 2024MilestoneI received my Ph.D. from HKUST!

Research Projects and Products

Research Scientist, Google — Mountain View
2026 – Present
Working on Gemini Omni: interactive, high-resolution video generation, with Yael Pritch and Peyman Milanfar.
Research Scientist, Tencent — Shenzhen
2024 – 2025
Core contributor to HunyuanImage 3.0: semantic encoder, text-to-image pre-training, and identity-preserving instruction editing.

Internships

Research Intern, Adobe Research & Firefly — San Jose
Jan 2024 – Apr 2024
Student Researcher, Google Research — Mountain View
Jul 2023 – Nov 2023
With Zhengzhong Tu, Keren Ye, Mauricio Delbracio, Hossein Talebi, and Peyman Milanfar.
Research Intern, Tencent AI Lab — Shenzhen
Jan 2023 – Jun 2023
Research Intern, Microsoft Research Asia — Beijing
Jun 2022 – Dec 2022
With Bo Zhang, Dong Chen, and Fang Wen.

Featured Publications View all →

Multimodal generative models for image and video synthesis. Full list on the Publications page or Google Scholar.

Generative Manifold Distillation teaser
Yuyang Hu, Mojtaba Sahraee-Ardakan, Arpit Bansal, Kangfu Mei, Chenyang Qi, Peyman Milanfar, Mauricio Delbracio
ECCV 2026
ICCV 2023 · Oral
Edit your video with a pretrained Stable Diffusion model — no training required.

Service & Awards

  • Reviewer: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, IJCAI, ACM MM
  • Oral Presentation, ICCV 2023 (FateZero)
  • National Scholarship, 2018 — Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University