Saining Xie
Co-founder and CSO of AMI Labs and NYU assistant professor; co-creator of DiT and co-author of ConvNeXt
- Co-founder and Chief Science Officer (CSO), AMI Labs1
- Assistant Professor, Courant Institute, New York University1
Saining Xie is the co-founder and Chief Science Officer of AMI Labs and an Assistant Professor at NYU's Courant Institute. Xie was previously a research scientist at Google DeepMind on the GenAI team and, before that, spent four years as a research scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Xie co-created diffusion transformers (DiT) with William Peebles and is a co-author of ConvNeXt, MoCo, and Masked Autoencoders; recent work from Xie's group includes Cambrian, a project on multimodal models across images and video.12467
Work
Diffusion Transformers (DiT) (external site: github.com)Published research
Co-author with William Peebles of "Scalable Diffusion Models with Transformers" (2022); the official repository credits both authors.23
ConvNeXt (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Co-author of "A ConvNet for the 2020s" (2022); the ConvNeXt repository is released under the MIT license.45
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Research scientist, GenAI team, Google DeepMind1
- Research scientist, FAIR (four years), Meta (Facebook AI Research)1
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