Zhihao (Zach) Xia
Zhihao (Zach) Xia is the co-founder and CTO of Phota Labs, a company building identity-preserving personalized generative AI models for photography. He previously worked as a research scientist and tech lead on Marc Levoy's team at Adobe, where he built AI features for photographers including Adobe Adaptive Profile and AI denoising. He holds a PhD from Washington University in St. Louis and has published research on computational photography, diffusion models for facial appearance editing, and image denoising.
“"It's not about mastering those tools. It's about directing an agent who can use those tools to achieve your creativity." — Zach Xia [00:00:00]”
Source→“"The agent needs to have really good memory. So if I tell you once, shouldn't need to tell you again in the future." — Zach Xia [00:15:27]”
Source→“"Even digital cameras have become so good nowadays, a lot of people are still taking films. Film is such an interesting process..." — Zach Xia [00:35:37]”
Source→“"We do a lot of identity preservation, identity consistency... People are actually very willing to generate a new image, put them in different environments, generating AI headshot, generating AI video of themselves using Phota's technology." — Zach Xia [00:10:03]”
Source→“"And now Claude Code just in a terminal — you can do that code. And it's the best way to sort of use that model because you cut through a lot of other things." — Zach Xia [00:28:51]”
Source→“"Zak Xia, who is the co-founder and CTO of Photo Labs. He works on personalized AI and AI photography." — Yoko Li [00:01:33]”
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