Tim Brooks, one of the DALL-E 3 authors, author of the GitHub 5.7k ️ project InstructPix2Pix, and while interning at NVIDIA in 2021-2022, was the project lead for video generation research.
Tim attended Carnegie Mellon University for his undergraduate degree, majoring in Logic and Computation with a minor in Computer Science, during which he interned at Facebook's Software Engineering department for four months.
In 2017, after graduating with his undergraduate degree, Tim first went to Google for almost two years to work on AI cameras in the Pixel phone division, and then went to Berkeley AI Lab to pursue his PhD.
During his PhD at Berkeley, Tim's main research focus was on image and video generation, and he also interned and led a study on video generation at NVIDIA.
After returning to campus, Tim worked with his mentor Prof. Alexei Efros and fellow postdoc Aleksander Holynski (now at Google) to develop the AI image editing tool InstructPix2Pix, which was selected for CVPR 2023 Highlight.
Last January, Tim successfully graduated with a PhD degree and joined OpenAI, where he worked on DALL-E 3 and Sora.
It is worth mentioning that Tim is not only highly skilled in his professional field, but also a multi-talented person.
According to Tim's own introduction, he also likes photography and music, when he was in high school, his photos won the National Geographic award, he has been to the Broadway show, and also won the B-box international award ......