- Featured in MIT Tech Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35 list.
- Received CMU's Recent Alumni Achievement Award in 2024.
- Received PAMI TC's Young Researcher Award (Honorable Mention) in 2025.
- Awarded PAMI Young Researcher Award (Honorable Mention) in June 2025.
- Featured in Rising Stars of AI Research by The Information in March 2025.
- Announced the Movie Gen series of foundation media models in October 2024, covered in NY Times, Financial Times, and Forbes.
- Contributed to the release of Llama3 in July 2024, with work on video recognition.
- 4 papers accepted at CVPR in June 2024.
- Emu Video project announced by Mark Zuckerberg in November 2023.
- ImageBind project announced by Mark Zuckerberg in May 2023.
- DINO-v2 project announced by Mark Zuckerberg in April 2023.
Research Experience
- Led research efforts on video generation models at the GenAI group at Meta.
- Served as the tech lead for Meta's Movie Gen project, focusing on foundation models in video generation, video editing, video personalization, and audio generation.
- Worked at FAIR in Meta on self-supervised learning in computer vision and multimodal learning.
Education
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
Background
Research Interests: Computer vision and machine learning, specifically in generative AI and representation learning. Currently a Director, Research Scientist in the TBD Labs research division at Meta's SuperIntelligence group.
Miscellany
Personal Interests: Discussed his work on Lex Fridman's podcast.