Matthew Tancik
Matthew Tancik heads the applied research team at Luma AI, where he works on creative AI tools and agentic systems. He previously pursued a PhD in computer science and electrical engineering at UC Berkeley, advised by Angjoo Kanazawa and Ren Ng, and completed his undergraduate and master's studies at MIT. He is best known as a co-author of NeRF, a neural radiance field method for view synthesis, as well as Nerfstudio and related follow-on research in 3D AI and computer vision.
“"Most recently, we've been doing a lot of work in the video-to-video space because we think that's a very good way to start incorporating pretty precise controls, especially in the time dimension." — Matt Tancik [00:26:14]”
Source→“"We've seen a trend in language models where they've transitioned to thinking modes. If you use ChatGPT or one of these models nowadays without thinking, it just doesn't feel smart." — Matt Tancik [00:24:52]”
Source→“"Matt Tansik, who is the head of applied research at Luma. He works on agentic systems, fundamental research, and he was also the co-creator of NeRF." — Yoko Li [00:01:33]”
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