And William Peebles, who graduated four months after Tim, is another principal at Sora.
Bill attended MIT as an undergraduate, majoring in computer science, where he participated in research on GAN and text2video, and also interned at NVIDIA's Deep Learning and Autonomous Driving team, studying computer vision.
Before he officially started his PhD after graduation, he also participated in a summer internship at Adobe, working on GAN still, which was a collaborative project with the group of (then) Chinese scholar Junyan Zhu at Carnegie Mellon University (also a student of Prof. Efros, now at MIT), and was a candidate for the best paper at CVPR 2022.