Xian Liu is a research scientist at NVIDIA Research. He received his Ph.D. in Multi-Media Laboratory (MMLab), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2025, where he worked with Prof. Dahua Lin and Prof. Ziwei Liu. His research interests include computer vision and generative models, especially the foundation GenAI (image/video/3D/4D generation), large-scale vision-language models, multi-modal tokenizers, and their applications in digital humans. He is fortunate to have extensive industrial experience during Ph.D. study, with multiple internships at several leading research institutes, including NVIDIA Research, Snap Research, Tencent AI Lab, SenseTime Research, and Shanghai AI Lab. He received his B.E. in computer science from Zhejiang University.