Meet the team
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Our Founders
The R&D engineer behind CGI Tarkin and the Hulk teamed up with the VFX supervisor of Madagascar-3 and Home to bring Hollywood quality digital humans technology to enterprise markets.
Kiran Bhat
Kiran Bhat is the co-founder and CTO of Loom.ai. In his ten years at Lucasfilm, Kiran led the facial performance captue R&D that won him a Sci-Tech Oscar in 2017. He received a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.
Mahesh Ramasubramanian
Mahesh Ramasubramanian is the co-founder and CEO of Loom.ai. Mahesh is a 20-year veteran in visual effects, including 17 years at DreamWorks Animation, and a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Mahesh holds a Masters in Computer Graphics from Cornell and an MBA from UCLA Anderson.
Our team
The Loom.ai team is a unique blend of internationally renowned computer graphics experts with two SciTech Oscars and deep learning practitioners.
Doug Griffin
VP Partnerships & Strategy
Founder Nomadic
President Faceshift
Vicon, Disney, EA, ILM
Ian Sachs
Principal Engineer
Adobe Research
Lucasfilm
Sci-Tech Oscar
Vivek Verma
Google
Lucasfilm R&D
Sarnoff
UC Santa Cruz PhD
Akash Garg
NIST, ILM, DWA
Disney Research,
Samsung DMC
Columbia PhD
Michael Palleschi
Atomic Fiction
ILM, Digital Domain
ImageMovers
Will Welch
Machine Learning
Numerical Opt
CMU PhD
Andrew Johnson
Lucasfilm R&D
HPC, CFD Sim
U of Minnesota PhD
Eloi du Bois
Astral-Images
Duran Dubois
Paris XI MS
Ron Griswold
Digital Domain
DreamWorks Animation
Academy of Art
Iñaki Navarro
Advertima
EPFL Post-doc
Politécnica de Madrid PhD
Jihyun Yoon
Lucasfilm, DreamWorks
Annie Award
Parsons School of Design
Tijmen Verhulsdonck
Deep Learning
Viorama GmbH
KTH Stockholm MS
Dan Whitton
Telltale Games
Hangar 13
Image Movers Digital
John Dodelson
Lucasfilm
DreamWorks Animation
Blue Sky Studios
Charles Shang
Deep Learning
Chinese Acad of Sciences
Tsingua PhD
Carsten Schipke
Cloud AR
Viorama GmbH
Avenit s/w Shanghai
Lukas Kuczynski
Computer Vision
Halide FX
Reed Physics
Javier Campos
Viorama GmbH
DeNA Studios
Atakama Labs Chile
Max Schneider
Splash VR
CTO, Viorama GmbH
Hasso Plattner Inst MS
Dario Kneubühler
Deep Learning
IBM
ETH Zurich MS
Ugur Ister
Theta Legion VR
RADiCAL Motion
Tiggly
Our advisors
Our jedi council of advisors include some of the sharpest brains in business and academia.
David Anderman
General Counsel at SpaceX
COO & GC LucasFilm
Variety Dealmaker of the Year
Jeremy Bailenson
Founding Director of Stanford University's
Virtual Human Interaction Lab
Zach Coelius
Super Angel
Founder & CEO Triggit
AngelList syndicate Cruise Automation
Alexander Seropian
Founder & CEO of Industrial Toys
Founder of Bungie Studios
Creator of Halo Series
Our backers
Funded by Silicon Valley investors, including Samsung Ventures, DHVC, Zach Coelius’ syndicate, GFR Fund, Anorak Ventures, and Y Combinator.
