Bryan Wang, Ph.D.
Research Scientist II @ Adobe Research
About
I'm a Research Scientist II at Adobe Research, where I work on AI systems and agents that help creators produce, steer, and refine generative media. I've led research on agents that edit video and shape stories, tools for audio drama and soundtracks, and continuous controls for image editing. Several have shipped in Adobe products used by millions.
I received my Ph.D. and M.Sc. from the University of Toronto and my B.Sc. from National Taiwan University, all in Computer Science. During my Ph.D., I was a research intern at Adobe, Google, and Meta.
Publications
SliderEdit++: Improved Slider Trajectories in Instruction-Based Image Editing
arXiv 2026Arman Zarei, Sayan Nag, Bryan Wang, Franck Dernoncourt, Varun Manjunatha, Nedim Lipka, Soheil Feizi, Samyadeep Basu
Dramarrator: Object-Based Audio Editing for Audio Drama Production from Books
UIST 2026Karim Benharrak, Oriol Nieto, Bryan Wang, Zeyu Jin, Amy Pavel
Script2Screen: Supporting Dialogue Scriptwriting with Interactive Audiovisual Generation
IUI 2026Zhecheng Wang, Jiaju Ma, Eitan Grinspun, Tovi Grossman, Bryan Wang
Mentoring
Intern Supervision
Thesis Committee
Research Advising
Now: CS PhD Student at University of Washington
Selected Invited Talks
DUB Seminar, University of Washington · HCI Seminar, UC Berkeley
Human–AI Co-Creation: Promises and Pitfalls of AI in Creative Workflows
Forum on Future Interaction: Reimagining Human–AI Relationships
Augmenting Human Capabilities in Content Creation and Interaction through Generative AI-infused Systems
Adobe Research · Apple Research · Google Research · Microsoft Research · ByteDance Research · Huawei Research · University of Notre Dame
Towards a Future of Co-Creating Videos with AI Agents
Twelve Labs, Multimodal Weekly
Making GUIs Interactable with Natural Language
HCI Seminar, University of Washington
AI-Facilitated Human-Computer Interactivity
University of Tokyo