Bryan Wang
Research Scientist II · Adobe Research
Ph.D. in Computer Science · University of Toronto
Summary
Human-AI interaction researcher building generative media systems and AI agents for content creation. End-to-end builder across machine learning, backend, frontend, and interaction design.
Experience
Adobe Research
Research Scientist II (Senior)
Jun 2026 to Present
Research Scientist
Sep 2024 to Jun 2026
Building generative media systems and AI agents end-to-end, from original research and 0→1 prototypes to production features in Adobe Firefly and Photoshop. Currently leading R&D on generative video creation agents.
- Shipped three generative-AI features in Adobe Firefly and Photoshop—led the 0→1 research behind Dynamic Layer and Tune, and contributed to Generate Soundtrack
- Published 8 papers at top venues (CHI, UIST, IUI), filed 3 patents, and mentored 7 Ph.D. interns
Research Intern · Meta Reality Labs - Research
Summer 2023
Created LAVE, an LLM-powered video editing agent that plans, searches, and edits footage through natural conversation.
Student Researcher · Google Research
Summer 2022
Among the first to show LLMs could enable conversational interaction with GUI through prompting alone, no task-specific training required.
Research Intern · Adobe Research
Summer 2021, Winter 2022
Built ROPE, an NLP-driven tool that automatically condenses voice recordings into social-media-ready audio stories while preserving narrative flow.
Research Intern · Google Research
Summer 2020, Winter 2021
Created a 110K-summary, 22K-screen multimodal dataset and trained vision-language models to automatically summarize mobile UIs.
Shipped Products
Dynamic Layer · Adobe Photoshop · Research Lead (0→1)
2026
Interpolate smoothly from your original image to an edit through a continuous sequence of video frames, then choose any point along the way.
Tune · Adobe Firefly & Photoshop · Research Lead (0→1)
2026
Scrub through a continuous range of generated image edits and choose any point along the way.
Generate Soundtrack · Adobe Firefly · Contributor
2025
A Firefly audio tool that generates commercially-safe instrumental soundtracks from a text prompt or video. Music that fits your footage, automatically.
Selected Publications
1,500+ citations · h-index 17 · See full list on Google Scholar.
Catherine Yeh, Anh Truong, Mira Dontcheva, Bryan Wang
Mina Huh, Ailie C. Fraser, Dingzeyu Li, Mira Dontcheva, Bryan Wang
Sidekick: Designing Ambient Communication for Effective Multitasking with Computer Use Agents
UIST 2026
Ruei-Che Chang, Wenqian Xu, Dingzeyu Li, Bryan Wang, Anhong Guo
Aditya Gunturu, Ben Pearman, Keiichi Ihara, Morteza Faraji, Bryan Wang, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Ryo Suzuki
Bryan Wang, Yuliang Li, Zhaoyang Lv, Haijun Xia, Yan Xu, Raj Sodhi
Stephen Brade, Bryan Wang, Mauricio Sousa, Sageev Oore, Tovi Grossman
Bryan Wang, Gang Li, Yang Li
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science · University of Toronto · Advisor: Tovi Grossman2024
Thesis: Human-AI Systems for Creating, Consuming, and Interacting with Digital Content
- M.Sc. in Computer Science · University of Toronto · Advisor: Tovi Grossman2020
- B.Sc. in Computer Science · National Taiwan University2018
Selected Honours
- Jazzki Human-Machine Creativity Award, First Place · SynthScribe2024
- Wolfond Scholarship · University of Toronto · $5,000 CAD2023 to 2024
- DiDi Graduate Student Award in Computer Science · University of Toronto · $10,000 CAD, two years2021 to 2023
- Apple AI/ML Fellowship Nominee · University of Toronto · one of three at the school2022
Skills
- Research Areas
- Human-AI Interaction · Generative Media Systems · Creativity Support Tools · AI Agents for Content Creation
- Engineering
- Python · TypeScript / React / Next.js / CSS · PyTorch · LLM tooling