Saurabh Shukla, Ph.D.
Ph.D. · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Postdoc · University of Washington, Seattle
B.Tech · IIT Delhi
AI Research Scientist at Cantina Labs.
I train large generative AI models — video, image, and everything in between.
Formerly applied AI in computational biology and physics.
Work
- Trained the AI video model that powers Cantina's AI characters Cantina
- Making image and video AI models freaky fast — distillation, quantization, and everything else Cantina
- Personalized image model — fast, realistic, and uniquely yours Cantina
- Built a generative AI game engine — text to playable assets, custom worlds at the click of a button Stealth
- Computer vision for scientific discovery — GANs that push atomic force microscopy beyond hardware limits UW
- Computer vision for large-scale microscopy video data of proteins in the brain. UIUC
- Machine learning for computational biology — molecular dynamics on hundreds of parallel GPUs, discovered a key biological pathway UIUC