PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Wen-Huang Cheng

Also known as 鄭文皇

Wen-Huang Cheng is a computer scientist whose research connects artificial intelligence with multimedia and computer vision. He earned three degrees at National Taiwan University and held research posts at IBM, Academia Sinica and HTC before leading CITI’s Multimedia Computing Research Group and becoming a professor at National Chiao Tung University. In 2023, he coauthored COTTON for size-aware virtual try-on and MovieFactory for text-driven multi-scene films; he co-chaired ACM Multimedia’s technical program in 2025 and became an IAPR Fellow in 2026. As of October 2026, he is NTU’s Distinguished Chair Professor and CSIE Deputy Chair, the founding director of its AIMM Research Group, and a director of industry-academia collaboration at NTU’s AI Center of Research Excellence.

Works
89
Citations
1,217
h-index
17
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1998–2010

    NTU degrees and early research

    At National Taiwan University, he studies computer science and information engineering from 1998 to 2002, earning his bachelor’s degree in 2002 and his master’s degree in 2004, then completes a PhD in its Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia in 2008. He interns at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 2007, joins Academia Sinica’s CITI as a postdoctoral fellow from August to December 2009, and works at HTC’s MagicLabs from December 2009 to July 2010.

  2. 2010–2018

    Leading CITI’s multimedia group

    At Academia Sinica, he leads the Multimedia Computing Research Group at CITI from 2010 to 2018. He serves as an assistant research fellow from 2010 to 2014 and an associate research fellow from 2014 to 2018; his research spans artificial intelligence, multimedia, computer vision and machine learning.

  3. 2018–2023

    Professor at NYCU

    He joins National Chiao Tung University’s Department of Electronics Engineering as a professor in August 2018. From February 2021 to January 2023, he serves as a distinguished professor at NYCU’s Institute of Electronics.

  4. 2023

    COTTON for virtual try-on

    At ICCV in 2023, he coauthors COTTON, a virtual try-on network that uses clothing landmarks and segmentation to deform garments for size adjustment.

  5. 2023

    MovieFactory from text

    He coauthors MovieFactory in 2023, which expands text prompts into sequential scripts and produces multi-scene films with generated visuals and retrieved audio.

  6. 2025

    ACM Multimedia co-chair

    He serves as a technical program co-chair for ACM Multimedia in 2025.

  7. 2026

    An IAPR fellowship

    In 2026, IAPR names him a Fellow for contributions to intelligent multimedia computing and service to its Taiwanese Member Society and conferences.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor and AIMM director

    He joins NTU as a professor in its Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering and Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia in February 2023 and becomes founding director of the Artificial Intelligence and Multimedia (AIMM) Research Group. As of October 2026, he is NTU Distinguished Chair Professor and CSIE Deputy Chair, and he directs Industry-Academia Collaboration at NTU’s AI Center of Research Excellence.

Career

  1. Since 2023National Taiwan UniversityProfessor and Deputy Chair, Founding Director
  2. 2021–2023National Yang Ming Chiao Tung UniversityDistinguished Professor
  3. 2018–2021National Chiao Tung UniversityProfessor
  4. 2010–2018Research Center for Information Technology InnovationGroup Leader
  5. 2009–2010Academia SinicaPostdoctoral Fellow
  6. 2009–2010HTC
  7. 2007IBM ResearchIntern

Education

  1. 2008National Taiwan UniversityPhD
  2. 2004National Taiwan UniversityMaster's degree
  3. 2002National Taiwan UniversityBachelor's degree

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

  1. 23% of people shaping AI who left a university for a company later returned to a universityIncludes Wen-Huang Cheng. We estimate that 468 of the 2,011 people shaping AI who left a university for a company (23%) later returned to a university after a median of 5 years, and 163 of 829 (20%) made the reverse round trip.
  2. 84% of people shaping AI with recorded undergraduate and doctoral schools changed institutions for their doctorateIncludes National Taiwan University. 84% of people shaping AI with recorded undergraduate and doctoral schools changed institutions for their doctorate. Across 2,116 people with both an undergraduate degree and a doctorate recorded, we trace which undergraduate schools feed which doctoral programs, how often students stay at the same school, and how paths differ by birth-country region.
  3. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes National Taiwan University. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  4. The United States employs an estimated 48% of people shaping AIIncludes National Taiwan University. We estimate where the people shaping AI work today, how universities, companies and research institutes split across countries, and how country shares have changed since the 1960s.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Wen-Huang Cheng csie.ntu.edu.tw. Checked 22 October 2026.
  2. 〖Invited Talk〗 Associate researcher Cheng Wen-huang at Taiwan Academia Sinica visited VIPL on March 23 vipl.ict.ac.cn. Checked 22 October 2026.
  3. Size Does Matter: Size-aware Virtual Try-on via Clothing-oriented Transformation Try-on Network openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 22 October 2026.
  4. [2306.07257] MovieFactory: Automatic Movie Creation from Text using Large Generative Models for Language and Images arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  5. Organisation | 2025 ACM Multimedia acmmm2025.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  6. Chronological List of IAPR Fellows – International Association for Pattern Recognition iapr.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  7. Leadership (en) – AI Center of Research Excellence aicore.ntu.edu.tw. Checked 22 October 2026.