Dejia Xu
I’m a research lead at Luma AI, focusing on Multimodal Agents for controllable image/video generation/editing and Physical AI. I was a core contributor to Uni-1 and co-led Uni-1.1, focusing on multimodal reasoning/generation/editing.
I got my Ph.D. from VITA Group, The University of Texas at Austin, advised by Prof. Atlas Wang.
news
| May 5, 2026 | Uni-1.1 API shipped! We rank top 3 lab in the Image Arena across Text-to-Image and Image Editing. |
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| Mar 5, 2026 | Uni-1 released! Our first unified understanding and generation model. |
| Apr 4, 2024 | Feature 3DGS and OpenBias are selected as CVPR 2024 Highlight papers (2.8% of 11532 submissions)! |
| Mar 21, 2023 | NeuralLift-360 is selected as a CVPR 2023 Highlight paper (2.5% of 9155 submissions)! |
| Dec 1, 2022 | Received Snap Research Fellowship. Thank you Snap! |
selected work
- Uni-1.1 ranks #3 on Image Arena across Text-to-Image and Image Editing. I lead the multimodal reasoning effort for image editing.
- Luma AI's first unified multimodal intelligence model. I was a core contributor working full-stack across pre-training, SFT, RL, and evaluation. I was the DRI for image editing and text rendering (posters/slides/infographics).