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Cong Wei

AI Researcher

Meta GenAI / University of Waterloo
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April 3, 2025
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Researcher at GenAI, Meta and University of Waterloo who led the MoCha project, introducing movie-grade talking character synthesis — a DiT-based model that generates character animations directly from natural language and speech input. His work defined a new task at the intersection of video generation and character animation.

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