Presenter

Sergey Tulyakov is the Director of Research at Snap Inc., where he leads the Creative Vision team. Sergey’s work focuses on building technology to enhance creators’ skills using computer vision, machine learning, and generative AI. His work involves 2D, 3D, video generation, editing, and personalization. To scale generative experiences to hundreds of millions of users, Sergey’s team builds the world’s most efficient mobile foundational models, which enhance multiple products at Snap Inc. Sergey pioneered video generation and unsupervised animation domains with MoCoGAN, MonkeyNet, and the First Order Motion Model, sparking several startups in the field. His work on Interactive Video Stylization received the Best in Show Award at SIGGRAPH Real-Time Live! 2020. He has published over 60 top conference papers, journals, and patents, resulting in multiple innovative products, including Real-time Neural Lenses, real-time try-on, Snap AI Video, Imagine Together, world's fastest foundational image-to-image model and many more. Before joining Snap Inc., Sergey was with Carnegie Mellon University, Microsoft, and NVIDIA. He holds a PhD from the University of Trento, Italy.