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.
Ian Sachs
Adobe Research
Sr. Innovation Engineer
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,
Troika Games
Will Welch
Machine Learning
Numerical Opt
20 years startups
CMU PhD
Andrew Johnson
Lucasfilm R&D
HPC, CFD Sim
Government R&D
U of Minnesota PhD
Josh Gustafson
Software Architecture,
Optimization, Graphics
Microsoft, HTC,
Articulate, Simple Control
Eloi du Bois
CV / ML
Astral-Images
Duran Dubois
Paris XI MS
David Harmon
Numerical Methods
Simulation
NYU Post Doc
Columbia PhD
Dominic Monn
Deep Learning
Reinforcement Learning
NVIDIA
TBZ Zurich
Rishabh Battulwar
Facial Animation R&D
Digital Domain
USC MS
Ron Griswold
Anim - Rigging Dev
Digital Domain
DreamWorks Animation
Academy of Art
Iñaki Navarro
Deep Learning
Advertima
EPFL Post-doc
Politécnica de Madrid PhD
Jihyun Yoon
Lucasfilm
DreamWorks Animation
Annie Award
Parsons School of Design
Senthil Radhakrishnan
Deep Learning
Scientist UCSB
JPL Post-doc
UMCP PhD
Tijmen Verhulsdonck
Deep Learning
Embedded Systems
Viorama
KTH Stockholm MS
Dan Whitton
Character Artist
Telltale Games
Hangar 13
Image Movers Digital
Moiz Merchant
Game engines
DreamWorks Animation
Electronic Arts
UT Austin
Dave Stevens
Game Applications
Xbox Avatars
Microsoft
John Dodelson
Lucasfilm
DreamWorks Animation
Blue Sky Studios
RISD
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
Jiqing Wu
Deep Learning
WGAN Modeling
ETH Zurich PhD
Hunter Blanks
Twilio
Cloudflare
PPL/SEL, 350 hours
Javier Campos
Game Developer
Viorama Germany
Dena Studios Canada
Atakama Labs Chile
Our advisors
Our jedi council of advisors include some of the sharpest brains in business and academia.
David Anderman
Chief Business Officer Jaunt
COO & General Counsel 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
Ron Fedkiw
Professor, Stanford CS
Two-time Academy Award Winner
Alexander Seropian
Founder & CEO of Industrial Toys
Founder of Bungie Studios
Creator of Halo Series
Jonathan Su
Founder & CEO of Pilot.ai
Director of Engineering eBay
Our backers
Funded by Silicon Valley investors, including Samsung Ventures, DHVC, Zach Coelius’ syndicate, GFR Fund, Anorak Ventures, and Y Combinator.
