Researcher working across 3D digital humans, controllable generation, and multimodal agents.

Research Focus

3D Digital HumansHand · Face / Head · Hair · Cloth · Motion
Controllable Generation3D Content · Identity · Video Editing
Multimodal AgentsMultimodal Generation · Agents

Experience

Researcher TikTok
Senior Researcher Tencent Youtu Lab
Graphics Algorithm Engineer Kwai Y-tech
Research Intern Kwai Y-tech · Supervisors: Haibin Huang and Chongyang Ma
Research Intern Tencent AI Lab

Education

M.S. · Artificial Intelligence and AutomationHuazhong University of Science and TechnologySupervisor: Prof. Nong Sang
B.S. · Optical and Electronic InformationHuazhong University of Science and Technology · Qiming College

Skills

3D Production PipelineUnreal Engine · Blender · Maya · Character Rigging · Animation

Honors & Awards

  • 2nd Place · ACM MM IPVG Challenge
  • Outstanding Graduate
  • National Scholarship · Top 2%

Professional Services

Conferences
NeurIPS · ECCV · ICCV · AAAI · ACM MM · SIGGRAPH · Eurographics
Journals
TVC · TVCJ

Publications

  1. SteerVTE: Seamless Video Text Editing with Style and Glyph Control Kai Zeng, Moran Li, Zhengwei Wang, Yingchen Yu, Yiheng Lin, Ruichuan An, Ming Lu, Qi She, Wentao Zhang Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) , 2026 [CCF A]Paper
  2. Conformal Cache: Reliable Proxy-Discrepancy Caching for Fast Generative Inference Wenxiao Wu, Yachen Gao, Yukang Feng, Chengming Xu, Moran Li, Jingyu Li, Ming Xie, Xiaobin Hu, Xinwei Sun, Jing-Hao Xue, Nong Sang, Yanwei Fu Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) , 2026 [CCF A]
  3. In-Context Forcing: Uncovering Context Effects in Autoregressive Video Diffusion Lingxiao Yang*, Liu Liu*, Moran Li*, Han Feng, Wenjian Cao, Jiangning Zhang, Ye Shi arxiv , 2026Paper
  4. TextSculptor: Training and Benchmarking Scene Text Editing Yiheng Lin, Siyu Jiao, Xiaohan Lan, Wei Zhou, Qi She, Fei Yu, Heyun Chen, Zhengwei Wang, Jinghuan Chen, Moran Li, Yingchen Yu, Zijian Feng, Yao Zhao, Yunchao Wei, Yujie Zhong arxiv , 2026Paper
  5. StrandDesigner: Towards Practical Strand Generation with Sketch Guidance Na Zhang*, Moran Li*, Chengming Xu, Han Feng, Xiaobin Hu, Jiangning Zhang, Weijian Cao, Chengjie Wang, Yanwei Fu ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) , 2025 [CCF A]Paper
  6. Identity-Preserving Text-to-Video Generation Guided by Simple yet Effective Spatial-Temporal Decoupled Representations Yuji Wang*, Moran Li*, Xiaobin Hu*, Ran Yi, Jiangning Zhang, Han Feng, Weijian Cao, Yabiao Wang, Chengjie Wang, Lizhuang Ma ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) , 2025 [CCF A]Paper
  7. ID-Sculpt: ID-aware 3D Head Generation from Single In-the-wild Portrait Image Jinkun Hao, Junshu Tang, Jiangning Zhang, Ran Yi, Yijia Hong, Moran Li, Weijian Cao, Yating Wang, Chengjie Wang, Lizhuang Ma AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) , 2025 [CCF A]Paper
  8. From Large Angles to Consistent Faces: Identity-Preserving Video Generation via Mixture of Facial Experts Yuji Wang*, Moran Li*, Xiaobin Hu*, Ran Yi, Jiangning Zhang, Chengming Xu, Weijian Cao, Yabiao Wang, Chengjie Wang, Lizhuang Ma arxiv , 2025Paper
  9. FreeMotion: A Unified Framework for Number-free Text-to-Motion Synthesis Ke Fan, Junshu Tang, Weijian Cao, Ran Yi, Moran Li, Jingyu Gong, Jiangning Zhang, Yabiao Wang, Chengjie Wang, Lizhuang Ma European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) , 2024 [CCF B]Paper
  10. DMTG: One-Shot Differentiable Multi-Task Grouping Yuan Gao, Shuguo Jiang, Moran Li, Jin-Gang Yu, Gui-Song Xia International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) , 2024 [CCF A]Paper
  11. HairStep: Transfer Synthetic to Real Using Strand and Depth Maps for Single-View 3D Hair Modeling Yujian Zheng, Zirong Jin, Moran Li, Haibin Huang, Chongyang Ma, Shuguang Cui, Xiaoguang Han IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) , 2023 [CCF A]Paper
  12. Implicit Neural Deformation for Sparse-View Face Reconstruction Moran Li, Haibin Huang, Yi Zheng, Mengtian Li, Nong Sang, Chongyang Ma Pacific Graphics 2022 (PG) , 2022 [CCF B]Paper
  13. Latent Distribution-Based 3D Hand Pose Estimation From Monocular RGB Images Moran Li, Jialong Wang, Nong Sang IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) , 2021 [CCF B]Paper
  14. Exploiting Learnable Joint Groups for Hand Pose Estimation Moran Li, Yuan Gao, Nong Sang AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) , 2021 [CCF A]Paper