TEAM

Christoph Schuhmann

Organizational Lead / Founder

Master in Physics & Computer Science. Producer of Schools of Trust.

Jenia Jitsev

Scientific Lead / Founder

Senior researcher. Leads Scalable Learning and Multi-Purpose AI (SLAMPAI) Lab at Juelich Supercomputing Center (JSC). PhD in Computer Science, with background in Neuroscience & Machine Learning.

Richard Vencu

Engineering Lead / Founder

AI, automation, and electronics engineer with 28 years of experience in the industry.

Romain Beaumont

Open source contributor / Founder

I like to apply scale and deep learning to build AI apps and models.

Robert Kaczmarczyk

Community / Medical / Operational Lead / Founder

Technical University of Munich. 3 years experience in epidemiological research.

Theo Coombes

Founding Member

Programmer with a great passion for big data and machine learning.

Mehdi Cherti

Founding Member, senior core researcher. Scalable Learning and Multi-Purpose AI (SLAMPAI) Lab at Juelich Supercomputing Center (JSC).

Researcher on Machine Learning and Deep Generative Models. Open multi-modal foundation models and datasets, scaling laws. PhD in Computer Science.

Irina Rish

Member, senior researcher.

Professor, Computer Science and Operations Research, Université de Montréal.Strong interest in Scaling Laws for ML

Aran Komatzusaki

Member. PhD student of Machine Learning at GaTech

Interest in RL, representation learning and generative modeling in general

Robin Rombach

Member. Stable Diffusion Trainer

AI researcher with a focus on deep generative models. Author of VQGAN, Latent Diffusion, Stable Diffusion.

Katherine Crowson

Member

AI researcher working on generative models. Generative artist

Marianna Nezhurina

Member, core researcher multi-modal learning. PhD student JSC/Tuebingen. Scalable Learning and Multi-Purpose AI (SLAMPAI) Lab at Juelich Supercomputing Center (JSC).

Coder and ML researcher with strong interest in open multi-modal foundation models and datasets, scaling laws.

Ludwig Schmidt

Member, senior lead researcher. Professor in computer science at Stanford University.

Research on datasets, reliable generalization, strong reasoning, evaluation and large models.

Rio Yokota

Member, senior researcher. Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, RIKEN. Large-scale machine learning on supercomputers.

Research in intersect of high performance computing, linear algebra, and machine learning. Strong interest in open foundation models.

Lucia Cipolina-Kun

Member. PhD Student at the University of Bristol.

AI researcher specialized on diffusion models, reinforcement learning and mathematics. Researching on art restoration and preservation of cultural heritage.

Dominic Rampas

Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt

AI researcher, passionate about generative models as means to enhance human creative processes. Author of Paella & Würstchen.

Pablo Pernias

Machine Learning Research en Disney Parks

AI researcher, passionate about generative models as means to enhance human creative processes. Author of Paella & Würstchen.

Björn Plüster

University of Hamburg, DiscoResearch. Ellamind.

AI researcher with a focus on multilingual LLMs and specialized finetuning.

Jörg Franke

Member, researcher. PhD student, U Freiburg/ELLIS Institute Tuebingen

Open foundation models & datasets, autoML and optimization

Gijs Wijngaard

Member, researcher. Scalable Learning and Multi-Purpose AI (SLAMPAI) Lab at Juelich Supercomputing Center (JSC).

Open multi-modal foundation models & datasets, audio modelling.

Aarush Katta

Founding Member

Programmer with lots of enthusiasm for AI & ML.