Weipeng Xu

Weipeng Xu, Ph.D. is a research scientist specializing in human-centric computer vision, graphics, and machine learning. He has led pioneering work in digital humans, neural rendering, and motion capture, with extensive experience spanning academia and industry, publishing widely in top venues such as CVPR, SIGGRAPH, and ICLR. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist at Valka.AI, leading research on digital human video generation using diffusion models. Previously, he was a Staff Research Scientist at Meta, driving innovations in egocentric human pose estimation, Codec Avatar telepresence, and generative human motion modeling. Before joining Meta, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, where he advanced human motion capture, 3D reconstruction, and neural rendering. His work has consistently bridged fundamental research with real-world applications in digital humans, computer vision, and machine learning.