I'm a Research Scientist at Amazon, where I develop large-scale multimodal AI systems for real-world operational and customer experiences. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2026, advised by Prof. Pu Wang in the GENIUS Lab. I was previously a Research Scientist Intern at Google's Extended Reality (AR/VR) team. My work includes a U.S. Patent on 3D human pose and movement estimation from monocular images.

My research lies at the intersection of computer vision, generative modeling, and multimodal learning. My current focus is on foundation models that unify real-time 3D human perception with high-fidelity motion synthesis — including generative masked modeling for pose and mesh recovery, streamable co-speech gesture generation, and large-scale multimodal systems for video understanding.

Muhammad Usama Saleem

Experience

2023 – 2025
Lowe's
Research Lead
Lowe's
Charlotte, NC
Summer 2025
Amazon
Research Scientist
Amazon · Multimodal GenAI
Boston, MA
2025 – 2026
Google
Research Scientist Intern
Google · AR/VR
San Francisco, CA
Present · 2026
Amazon
Research Scientist
Amazon
Seattle, WA

News

Jun 2026 MAGE on modality-agnostic music generation released on arXiv.
Jun 2026 M2M-HMR accepted to ECCV 2026.
Mar 2026 Joined Amazon as Research Scientist (Full-Time).
Mar 2026 Completed Ph.D. from UNC Charlotte. Dissertation: Towards Generative Modeling of 3D Humans From Multimodal Signals.
Mar 2026 U.S. Patent published: 3D human pose and movement from monocular images.
Feb 2026 LiveGesture accepted to CVPR 2026.
Nov 2025 DanceMosaic accepted to AAAI 2026.
Oct 2025 Joined Google as Research Scientist Intern — Extended Reality (AR/VR).
Oct 2025 MaskControl selected for Oral Presentation & Best Paper Award Nominee at ICCV 2025.
July 2025 Poster selected at Amazon WWAS Science Fair Seattle.
June 2025 MaskHand & MaskControl accepted to ICCV 2025.
Dec 2024 GenHMR accepted to AAAI 2025, presented in Philadelphia.
Oct 2024 BioPose accepted to WACV 2025.
July 2024 BAMM accepted to ECCV 2024.
Sept 2023 Joined Lowe's as Research Lead of the CV & UNCC Team.
June 2023 DPFedProxGAN accepted to IJCNN 2023.
July 2022 Privacy Enhancement for Few-Shot Learning accepted to IJCNN 2022.
Jan 2022 DP-Shield accepted to EDBT 2022.

Selected Research

Publications

U.S. Patent — 3D human pose from monocular images
MAGE
Google
MAGE: Modality-Agnostic Music Generation and Target-Source Extraction
Muhammad Usama Saleem, Ravi Tejasvi, Tianyu Xu, Rajeev Nongpiur, Ishan Chatterjee, Mayur Jagdishbhai Patel, Pu Wang
In collaboration with Google
arXiv, 2026
Work done during research internship at Google.
LiveGesture
LiveGesture: Streamable Co-Speech Gesture Generation Model
Muhammad Usama Saleem, Mayur Jagdishbhai Patel, Ekkasit Pinyoanuntapong, Zhongxing Qin, Li Yang, Hongfei Xue, Ahmed Helmy, Chen Chen, Pu Wang
CVPR, 2026
M2M-HMR
Walk Before You Dance: High-fidelity and Editable Dance Synthesis via Generative Masked Motion Prior
Foram Shah*, Parshwa Shah*, Muhammad Usama Saleem, Ekkasit Pinyoanuntapong, Pu Wang, Hongfei Xue, Ahmed Helmy
AAAI, 2026
*Equal Contribution
MaskHand: Generative Masked Modeling for Robust Hand Mesh Reconstruction in the Wild
Muhammad Usama Saleem, Ekkasit Pinyoanuntapong, Mayur Jagdishbhai Patel, Hongfei Xue, Ahmed Helmy, Srijan Das, Pu Wang
ICCV, 2025
Snapchat
MaskControl: Spatio-Temporal Control for Masked Motion Synthesis
Ekkasit Pinyoanuntapong, Muhammad Usama Saleem, Korrawe Karunratanakul, Pu Wang, Hongfei Xue, Chen Chen, Chuan Guo, Junli Cao, Jian Ren, Sergey Tulyakov
In collaboration with Snapchat
ICCV, 2025 (Oral, Best Paper Award Nominee)
GenHMR: Generative Human Mesh Recovery
Muhammad Usama Saleem, Ekkasit Pinyoanuntapong, Pu Wang, Hongfei Xue, Srijan Das, Chen Chen
AAAI, 2025
BioPose: Biomechanically-accurate 3D Pose Estimation from Monocular Videos
Muhammad Usama Saleem*, Farnoosh Koleini*, Pu Wang, Hongfei Xue, Ahmed Helmy, Abbey Fenwick
WACV, 2025
*Equal Contribution
BAMM: Bidirectional Autoregressive Motion Model
Ekkasit Pinyoanuntapong, Muhammad Usama Saleem, Pu Wang, Minwoo Lee, Srijan Das, Chen Chen
ECCV, 2024
DPFedProxGAN
Privacy Enhancement
Privacy Enhancement for Cloud-Based Few-Shot Learning
A. Parnami, Muhammad Usama Saleem, L. Fan, M. Lee
IJCNN, 2022
DP-Shield: Face Obfuscation with Differential Privacy
Muhammad Usama Saleem, D. Reilly, L. Fan
EDBT, 2022