Experience

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  HeyGen

  • Los Angeles, California, United States

  • GenAI Researcher

    • Apr 2024 - Present
    • Los Angeles, California, United States

    Research of generative video models for content creation, including stable video diffusion models, diffusion transformers, GAN-based approaches.

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  Drip.Art

  • San Francisco, California, United States

  • Founding Research Scientist

    • Feb 2023 - May 2024
    • San Francisco, California, United States

    Leading the research efforts into creating an end-to-end Generative AI framework that allows for creating stylized videos and animations based on a text prompt; in particular, text-to-video synthesis, example-based video style transfer, and propagating edits through the video sequence.

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  Samsung Research America (SRA)

  • United States
  • Software Development
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Senior Research Scientist

    • Mar 2021 - Apr 2023

    Research and implementation of computer vision and deep learning techniques to render photorealistic virtual humans, focusing on faces. Involved conditional GANs, image-to-image translation networks, deferred neural rendering. Part of the NEON team.

  • Research Scientist Intern

    • Apr 2020 - Feb 2021

    Research and implementation of various image-to-image and video-to-video translation neural networks for face manipulation, e.g., adding makeup, changing skin tone, adding or removing scars or wrinkles. Part of the NEON team.

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  Adobe

  • United States
  • Software Development
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Remote Collaboration

    • Sep 2017 - Dec 2019

    Research & Development. Remote collaboration on several research projects, publications, and tech transfer project. Computer graphics; patch-based style transfer; neural-network-based style transfer.

  • Research Scientist Intern

    • Jul 2018 - Oct 2018

    Research & Development. Combining neural-network-based and patch-based style transfer methods. Chunk-based style transfer method with a focus on real-time performance.

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  Snap Inc.

  • Greater Los Angeles Area

  • Research Scientist Intern

    • Jul 2019 - Oct 2019
    • Greater Los Angeles Area

    Research of new techniques on training generative adversarial networks for style transfer tasks; focused on a scenario where a minimal amount of data is available, and an interactive response is required. Furthermore, developing a shader-based real-time stylization for human portraits.

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  Adobe

  • San Jose, California

  • Research Scientist Intern

    • Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
    • San Jose, California

    Research & Development. Guiding patch-based style transfer method using: convolutional neural networks, image harmonization, and histogram optimization. Integrating developed style transfer method into Adobe Photoshop.

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  Dynavix

  • Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

  • Software Developer

    • Apr 2014 - Sep 2017
    • Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

    Software Architecture & Development. The navigation application for smartphones, tablets, and PND devices. C++, Java (Android), JavaEE, Objective-C (iOS), C#.

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  Anathema Project Nemesis

  • Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

  • Software Developer

    • Jan 2013 - Apr 2014
    • Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

    Software & Database Development. The World of Warcraft game server. Extending game mechanics(C++); scripting artificial intelligence; data-mining.