Christoph Schuhmann
Organizational Lead / Founder
Background in physics and computer science. Producer of Schools of Trust.
The network
Team
Researchers, engineers, organizers, and contributors working to keep large-scale AI research open.
Jenia Jitsev
Scientific Lead / Founder
Leads the Scalable Learning and Multi-Purpose AI Lab at Jülich Supercomputing Centre. Research in large-scale machine learning, with a background in neuroscience and computer science.
Research profile
Richard Vencu
Engineering Lead / Founder
Engineering expertise in artificial intelligence, automation, and electronics.
Romain Beaumont
Open-source contributor / Founder
Builds open models and tools for large-scale deep learning.
Robert Kaczmarczyk
Community / Medical / Operational Lead / Founder
Works across community, medical research, and operations, with a background in epidemiological research.
Theo Coombes
Founding Member
Programmer focused on large-scale data and machine learning.
Mehdi Cherti
Founding member / Researcher
Researcher in the Scalable Learning and Multi-Purpose AI Lab at Jülich Supercomputing Centre. Research in open multimodal models, datasets, generative modelling, and scaling laws. PhD in computer science.
Research profile
Irina Rish
Member / Researcher
Professor of computer science and operations research at Université de Montréal. Research interests include scaling laws for machine learning.
Aran Komatsuzaki
Member / Researcher
Research interests include reinforcement learning, representation learning, and generative modelling.
Research profile
Robin Rombach
Member / Researcher
Research in deep generative models. Co-author of VQGAN, Latent Diffusion, and Stable Diffusion.
Katherine Crowson
Member
AI researcher and generative artist working on generative models.
Marianna Nezhurina
Member / Researcher
PhD student at Jülich Supercomputing Centre and the University of Tübingen, in the Scalable Learning and Multi-Purpose AI Lab. Research in open multimodal foundation models, datasets, scaling laws, scalable reinforcement learning, and agentic model training and evaluation.
Ludwig Schmidt
Member / Researcher
Professor of computer science at Stanford University. Research in datasets, generalization, reasoning, evaluation, and large models.
Research profile
Rio Yokota
Member / Researcher
Professor at Institute of Science Tokyo. Research at the intersection of high-performance computing, linear algebra, and machine learning.
Research profile
Lucia Cipolina-Kun
Member / Researcher
Research in diffusion models, reinforcement learning, and mathematics, including applications to art restoration and cultural heritage.
Dominic Rampas
Research contributor
Research in generative models for human creativity. Co-author of Paella and Würstchen.
Pablo Pernias
Research contributor
Research in generative models for human creativity. Co-author of Paella and Würstchen.
Björn Plüster
Research contributor
Affiliated with the University of Hamburg, DiscoResearch, and Ellamind. Research in multilingual language models and specialized fine-tuning.
Jörg Franke
Member / Researcher
Research in open foundation models and datasets, automated machine learning, and optimization.
Gijs Wijngaard
Member / Researcher
Researcher in the Scalable Learning and Multi-Purpose AI Lab at Jülich Supercomputing Centre. Research in open multimodal foundation models and datasets, and audio modelling.
Aarush Katta
Founding Member
Programmer working in artificial intelligence and machine learning.