Mohammad Norouzi

Norouzi studied as an undergraduate at Sharif University of Technology in Iran, completed a master’s thesis at Simon Fraser University in Canada in 2009, and then pursued a PhD in computer science at the University of Toronto under David Fleet, working on scalable similarity search and completing the degree in December 2015; during his doctorate he received a Google PhD Fellowship in Machine Learning. His thesis, “Compact Discrete Representations for Scalable Similarity Search,” appeared in 2016, and he had earlier published “Fast Exact Search in Hamming Space with Multi-Index Hashing” in TPAMI (2014).⁠[1][2]

In January 2016 Norouzi joined the Google Brain team in Mountain View, moving to Toronto in January 2018; his final title was senior staff research scientist.⁠[1]

At Google he co-developed GoogleGoogleGoogle is an American technology company founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin and incorporated in 1998. It became an Alphabet subsidiary in 2015. Its businesses include internet search, advertising, software platforms, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence.Open the full entry’s neural machine translation system, the label-free contrastive visual representation learning method SimCLR, and the diffusion-based text-to-image system Imagen and text-to-video system Imagen Video; his research also included the image-to-image translation model Palette, the audio generation model WaveGrad and the image-to-3D model 3DiM. In 2018 his co-authored papers “Discovery of Latent 3D Keypoints” and “Memory Augmented Policy Optimization” were selected for an oral presentation and a spotlight presentation, respectively, at NeurIPS.⁠[2][1]

On August 15, 2024, a16zAndreessen HorowitzAndreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. It invests from the seed stage through the growth stage and provides operational support to its portfolio companies.Open the full entry published “Ideogram: Unlocking Precision Image Generation” on YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is Google’s video-sharing and creator platform, founded in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim and acquired by Google in 2006. Built around video uploading, viewing, and creator earnings, the platform has developed Shorts, YouTube Music, Premium, YouTube TV, and products for children, and is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.Open the full entry, hosted by Steph Smith. As co-founder and CEO of Ideogram, Norouzi described the platform’s aim of making visual creation accessible regardless of artistic skill and discussed its text rendering in images, prompt adherence, how user feedback shaped the product, and serving both professional designers and casual creators.⁠[3]

On November 6, 2024, Norouzi spoke at the Toronto Vision Seminar hosted by the University of Toronto’s Department of Computer Science.⁠[2]

Norouzi is co-founder and chief executive officer of Ideogram, a Toronto-based generative AI startup; on his personal website he describes the company’s aim as helping people become more creative through generative AI.⁠[2][1]

Personal website: https://norouzi.github.io/ (opens in a new window).⁠[1]

Ideogram: Official website: https://ideogram.ai/ (opens in a new window).⁠[3]

X: Public account: https://x.com/mo_norouzi (opens in a new window).⁠[1][3]

LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/monorouzi (opens in a new window).⁠[1]