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

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

Researcher on Machine Learning and Deep Generative Models. 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. Multi-Modal Data Batgirl

Coder and ML researcher with strong interest in multi-modal datasets and learning.

Ludwig Schmidt

Member, senior researcher. Professor in computer science at the University of Washington.

Research on datasets, reliable generalization, and large models.

Hilde Kuehne

Member, senior researcher. Professor in computer science at the University of Bonn, affiliated Llamar Institute & MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab

Research on Multimodal Self-supervised Learning & Video Understanding.

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.

Huu Nguyen

Head of safety policy. Founder and CEO of ontocord.ai

Computer scientist and lawyer with over 15 years of experience and advocate for the human rights of equal access to scientific advancement and education.

Björn Plüster

University of Hamburg, DiscoResearch

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

Aarush Katta

Founding Member

Programmer with lots of enthusiasm for AI & ML.

Jan Ebert

Founding Member

Software engineer and researcher, responsible for scaling up deep learning. Helmholtz AI.