Junxiao Shen
Assistant Professor, University of Bristol
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Memories.ai
I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Bristol, and Co-Founder & Chief Scientist of Memories.ai. I am a joint member of the Bristol Vision Institute and the Bristol Interaction Group. I completed my Ph.D. at the Machine Intelligence Laboratory, University of Cambridge, supervised by Prof. Per Ola Kristensson.
My research sits at the intersection of visual AI, human–computer interaction in extended reality, and long-form video understanding — building systems that can perceive, remember, and interact with people over long horizons. I lead a research group of 5 Ph.D. students and serve as Director of Individual Projects, the School’s largest undergraduate programme.
In parallel, Memories.ai translates this research into commercial products — serving 45+ enterprise customers with partners including NVIDIA, KDDI Japan, and Samsung.
Research Interests
News
- Jan 2026MARC accepted to ICLR 2026; ST-Think and CAMP-VQA to WACV 2026.
- Oct 2025CULTURE3D accepted to ICCV 2025; X-LeBench to EMNLP 2025 (Findings).
- 2025Awarded US EB1A (Extraordinary Ability) for research and entrepreneurship.
- Sep 2024Joined the University of Bristol as Assistant Professor.
- 2023Awarded the Meta PhD Fellowship in AR/VR HCI.
Selected Recognition
- US EB1A (Extraordinary Ability) Visa, 2025
- Meta PhD Fellowship, 2023
- Trinity Mainland China Scholarship, 2020 (ranked 1st in college admission)
- Jardine Foundation Scholarship, 2016
- Gold Medal, British Physics Olympiad, 2016
Prospective Students
I am recruiting motivated Ph.D. students and research interns in long-form video understanding, visual memory & spatial AI, mixed-reality interactions, and interactive AI systems. Bristol is a UK top-5 research university (THE REF 2021) and hosts Isambard-AI, the UK’s most powerful supercomputer.
Please email me at shawn.shen@bristol.ac.uk with your CV and a short research statement.