Junxiao Shen

Junxiao Shen

Assistant Professor, University of Bristol. Co-founder of Memories.ai

About Me

I am an Assistant Professor in immersive technologies at the School of Computer Science, University of Bristol, and Co-founder of Memories.ai. I am a joint member of both the Bristol Vision Institute (BVI) and Bristol Interaction Group (BIG). I completed my Ph.D. at the Machine Intelligence Laboratory, University of Cambridge, supervised by Professor Per Ola Kristensson.

🚀 Co-founder of Memories.ai

Building the future of video understanding. Memories.ai is a Series A startup developing cutting-edge video intelligence platforms that help organizations unlock insights from visual data at scale. Our technology combines advanced computer vision, multi-modal AI, and large language models to transform how the world interacts with video content.

28+
Research Papers
$15M
Series A Raised
5
Journal Papers
14
Conference Papers

Research Interests

My research focuses on innovating next-generation input techniques and interactive AI applications within Mixed Reality (MR) and video understanding systems. I believe that combining AI and MR can augment human abilities.

Mixed Reality (MR/AR) Text Entry Systems Gestural Interactions Video Understanding Interactive AI Multi-modal AI Context-aware Computing Human-Computer Interaction

🏆 Awards & Scholarships

  • Meta PhD Fellow — Meta Research
  • Jardine Foundation Scholar — Comparable to Oxford Rhodes Scholar
  • Trinity Mainland China Bursary — Ranked 1st in college admission test
  • Dulwich Scholarship — Full scholarship for A-Level studies in London

Selected Publications

Published in top-tier venues including IEEE TVCG, ICLR, WACV, EMNLP, ICCV, ISMAR, CHI, IUI, and FG. See the full list on my Publications page or Google Scholar.

About University of Bristol

The University of Bristol, located in Bristol, UK — just 90 minutes by train from London — is a top 5 UK university for research quality (THE REF 2021) and ranked 55th in the world (QS 2024). Bristol hosts the Isambard-AI supercomputer, the most powerful in the UK, as part of the new Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (AIRR).

Prospective Students

I am seeking motivated PhD students in:

  • Video AI & Understanding — Advanced video analysis, multi-modal learning, temporal reasoning
  • Mixed Reality Interactions — Novel input methods, gesture recognition, immersive UX
  • Interactive AI Systems — Context-aware AI, human-AI collaboration, intelligent interfaces
  • Memory-Augmented Systems — Episodic memory, continual learning, adaptive AI

Please email me at junxiao.shen@bristol.ac.uk with your CV and a cover letter.