People
People in image, video, and 3d generation
66 people in the USASI People directory whose profiles list image, video, and 3d generation as a field of their work. Listed alphabetically; this is not a ranking. Each profile covers public professional work only, cited to official pages.
Aaron Lefohn
Vice President of Graphics Research, NVIDIA
Vice President of Graphics Research at NVIDIA; leads the Real-Time Rendering Research team
Aditya Grover
Co-founder and CTO, Inception
Co-founder and CTO of Inception; Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UCLA leading the MINT group
Aditya Ramesh
VP of Research; leads Worldsim, OpenAI
VP of Research at OpenAI who leads Worldsim; first author of DALL·E and DALL·E 2, co-author of CLIP
Alex Nichol
Deep learning research, OpenAI
OpenAI researcher; first author of GLIDE, Improved DDPM, and Point-E; co-author of the HumanEval paper
Alexandre Défossez
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, Gradium
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Gradium and co-founder of Kyutai; behind MusicGen, EnCodec and Moshi
Alexei A. Efros
Howard Friesen Professor, EECS Department; member of BAIR, University of California, Berkeley
Howard Friesen Professor in UC Berkeley EECS and member of BAIR; co-author of pix2pix and CycleGAN
Amir Hertz
Research scientist, Google
Research scientist at Google; first author of Prompt-to-Prompt image editing with cross-attention control
Amit Jain
Co-founder and CEO, Luma AI
Co-founder and CEO of Luma AI, the company behind the Dream Machine platform and Ray video models
Angjoo Kanazawa
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; leads the KAIR lab, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley EECS associate professor whose lab builds the open-source nerfstudio and gsplat libraries
Ben Mildenhall
Co-founder, working on graphics and 3D computer vision, World Labs
Co-founder of World Labs and first author of the NeRF paper on neural radiance fields for view synthesis
Bichen Wu
Listed with GenAI, Meta as first author of the Fairy paper (2023); FBNet work done while interning at Facebook, Meta
Computer vision researcher; first author of Meta's Fairy video-editing paper and of FBNet
Bilawal Sidhu
Technology curator and host, TED
Tech creator covering AI, AR/VR, and robotics; technology curator and host for TED
Christian Cantrell
Founder and CPO (Chief Product/Prompt Officer), Reve AI
Founder and CPO of Reve AI; formerly led Adobe Design Prototyping and was VP of Product at Stability AI
Christoph Lassner
Co-founder, World Labs
Co-founder of World Labs; author of the Pulsar sphere-based renderer used as a PyTorch3D backend
Dani Valevski
Listed with Google Research as co-first author of GameNGen (2024), Google Research
Co-first author of GameNGen, a diffusion model that simulates DOOM in real time, and first author of UniTune
David Forsyth
Fulton Watson Copp Chair in Computer Science, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Fulton Watson Copp Chair in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
David Ha
Co-Founder & CEO, Sakana AI
Co-founder and CEO of Sakana AI; former Google research scientist and co-author of World Models
David Luebke
Runs a research group in NVIDIA Research focused on computer graphics and neural image synthesis, NVIDIA
Helped found NVIDIA Research in 2006; runs a research group on computer graphics and neural image synthesis
Diederik P. Kingma
Research on large-scale machine learning (2024–current), Anthropic
Researcher at Anthropic; first author of the Variational Autoencoder and Adam optimizer papers
Hao Zhang
Assistant Professor, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute and Computer Science and Engineering; leads the Hao AI Lab, University of California San Diego
UC San Diego assistant professor who leads the Hao AI Lab; FastVideo, vLLM and Chatbot Arena co-author
Heiga Zen
Principal Scientist (from June 2023), Google DeepMind
Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind; WaveNet co-author and an original author of HTS speech synthesis
Ian Goodfellow
Principal Scientist (as listed in 2023), Google DeepMind
First author of the Generative Adversarial Networks paper and co-author of the Deep Learning textbook
Jade Copet
Listed with Meta AI, FAIR Team on the EnCodec paper (2022) and with Meta AI on the MusicGen paper (2023), Meta AI
First author of MusicGen and co-first author of EnCodec, both released in Meta's AudioCraft library
Jascha Sohl-Dickstein
Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic; first author of the 2015 paper that introduced diffusion models
Jiaming Song
Chief Scientist, Luma AI
Creator of DDIM; former Chief Scientist at Luma AI and former research scientist at NVIDIA Research
Jonathan Ho
Listed with Google Research, Brain Team on Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance and as co-first author of Imagen Video (2022), Google Research, Brain Team
First author of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) and of Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance
Jonathan Shen
Software Engineer (Tacotron 2 blog byline, December 2017), Google
First author of the Tacotron 2 text-to-speech paper, written as a software engineer at Google
Ju-Chieh Chou
Ph.D. student, advised by Karen Livescu, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
TTIC PhD student in speech and language processing; former research intern at Meta and Microsoft
Jun-Yan Zhu
Michael B. Donohue Associate Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University
CMU associate professor and Nunchux AI co-founder; first author of CycleGAN and co-author of pix2pix
Justin Johnson
Co-founder, World Labs
World Labs co-founder; first author of the perceptual-losses, CLEVR and DenseCap papers in computer vision
Kaiming He
Associate Professor with tenure, Department of EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
First author of ResNet, Mask R-CNN and MAE; MIT associate professor and part-time scientist at Google DeepMind
Károly Zsolnai-Fehér
Creator and host, Two Minute Papers
Creator of Two Minute Papers, a video series sharing new research, including AI research
Katherine Crowson
Listed with an EleutherAI affiliation as co-first author of the VQGAN-CLIP paper (2022), EleutherAI
Creator of the k-diffusion library and co-first author of VQGAN-CLIP
Katja Hofmann
Partner Research Manager, co-leading the People-Centric AI research area, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research Cambridge who led the Muse (WHAM) gameplay model project
Luke Melas-Kyriazi
Building Cursor, Anysphere
Building Cursor at Anysphere; former Meta visiting researcher working on 3D generation
Matt Wolfe
Creator, Future Tools
Creator of Future Tools and host of The Next Wave Podcast, covering AI news and tools
Michael J. Black
Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Meshcapade
Co-author of the SMPL-X body model; co-founder of Body Labs; named a Distinguished Amazon Scholar in 2017
Miika Aittala
Member of NVIDIA Research (joined November 2019), NVIDIA Research
Member of NVIDIA Research; co-author of the StyleGAN3, EDM, and EDM2 generative model papers
Ming-Yu Liu
Vice President of Cosmos Lab (Vice President of Research), NVIDIA
Vice President of Cosmos Lab at NVIDIA; supervised the Cosmos3 world model family
Nataniel Ruiz
AI researcher working on pre-training of generative models, Google DeepMind
Researcher on generative model pre-training at Google DeepMind; lead author of DreamBooth
Neil Zeghidour
Audio Research Advisor, Kyutai
First author of SoundStream and co-author of AudioLM at Google Research; Audio Research Advisor at Kyutai
Patrick Esser
Listed with Runway ML as an author of the Latent Diffusion Models paper (CVPR 2022), Runway ML
Co-first author of Taming Transformers (VQGAN) and co-author of Latent Diffusion Models
Patrick von Platen
Listed in The Mistral AI Team on the Mistral NeMo model card and as a contributor to the Ministral 3 report (2026), Mistral AI
First listed author of Hugging Face Diffusers; vLLM code owner for Mistral models
Pedro Cuenca
Machine learning engineer, Hugging Face
Machine learning engineer at Hugging Face; Diffusers co-author and builder of on-device Swift tools
Peiyuan Zhang
Works at ByteDance (title not stated), ByteDance
First author of the Sliding Tile Attention and VSA papers cited by FastVideo; Hao AI Lab alumnus
Phillip Isola
Associate Professor in EECS; member of CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT associate professor in EECS; first author of pix2pix and co-author of Foundations of Computer Vision
Pieter Abbeel
Professor, Jim Gray Chair of Engineering; Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab; Co-Director of BAIR, University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley professor and Robot Learning Lab director; Amazon Scholar; former OpenAI research scientist
Prafulla Dhariwal
Research scientist working on generative models and unsupervised learning, OpenAI
Research scientist at OpenAI; co-author of Diffusion Models Beat GANs, GLIDE, Jukebox, and Glow
Richard Kerris
Industry general manager for media and entertainment, NVIDIA
Industry general manager for media and entertainment at NVIDIA; former CTO of Lucasfilm
Richard Zhang
Principal Scientist, Adobe Research
Principal Scientist at Adobe Research; first author of the LPIPS perceptual metric and image colorization work
RJ Skerry-Ryan
Researcher listed in Google Research's people directory (publications 2017–2025), Google Research
Google researcher; co-author of Tacotron and Tacotron 2 and first author of Tacotron prosody transfer
Ron Mokady
VP of Research, BRIA AI
VP of Research at BRIA AI; co-author of Prompt-to-Prompt and first author of Null-text Inversion
Saining Xie
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer (CSO), AMI Labs
Co-founder and CSO of AMI Labs and NYU assistant professor; co-creator of DiT and co-author of ConvNeXt
Samuli Laine
Member of NVIDIA Research since 2007, NVIDIA Research
Member of NVIDIA Research since 2007; first author of nvdiffrast and co-author of StyleGAN and EDM
Sanja Fidler
Associate Professor, University of Toronto
University of Toronto associate professor, Vector Institute co-founder and NVIDIA VP of AI Research
Sanyuan Chen
Research Scientist, Meta
Research scientist at Meta FAIR; first author of WavLM and co-first author of VALL-E
Sayak Paul
Senior Research Engineer, working on diffusion models (since March 2026), Hugging Face
Works on diffusion models at Hugging Face and is a listed author of the Diffusers library
Simo Ryu
Collaborator on AuraFlow v0.1, credited on fal's AuraFlow model card, fal
Author of the LoRA repository for diffusion fine-tuning; AuraFlow collaborator and Diffusers contributor
Stefano Ermon
CEO, Inception
CEO of Inception, developer of Mercury diffusion LLMs; Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford
Tero Karras
Senior Distinguished Research Scientist, NVIDIA Research
Senior Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research; primary author of the StyleGAN models
Tsung-Yi Lin
Principal research scientist, NVIDIA Research, NVIDIA
Principal research scientist at NVIDIA Research; led the creation of the COCO dataset; Cosmos co-author
Wei-Ning Hsu
Research Scientist, Meta AI
Research scientist at Meta AI (formerly FAIR); first author of HuBERT
Xu Tan
Research VP of Multimodality, Moonshot AI
Research VP of Multimodality at Moonshot AI; formerly Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research Asia
Yang Song
Research Principal, Meta Superintelligence Labs
Research Principal at Meta Superintelligence Labs; first author of the score SDE and consistency models papers
Yi Ren
Leads the foundation video model research team, HeyGen
First author of FastSpeech and FastSpeech 2; former MSRA intern; leads video model research at HeyGen
Yuval Alaluf
Research Scientist, Runway
Research Scientist at Runway; first author of ReStyle and co-author of Attend-and-Excite
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