David Salesin
Distinguished Scientist at University of Washington
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Salesin is a Distinguished Scientist and creative technologies leader at Google DeepMind with over three decades of impact at the intersection of computer graphics, vision, and AI. A Stanford PhD and long-time University of Washington professor, he has directed research organizations at Adobe, Microsoft Research, Snap, and Google, founding Adobe’s Creative Technologies Lab and shaping tools used by artists and engineers. His work blends academic rigor with product-focused research, producing foundational contributions to rendering and computational photography that quietly underlie many modern creative platforms. Based in San Francisco, he continues to bridge deep research and real-world systems, mentoring the next generation of graphics researchers while steering large-scale applied AI projects.
11 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Sc.B., Computer Science, Sc.B., Computer Science at Brown UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (2)
inverse4
renderer2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ksalesin/mitsuba3-nasa
Oct 2022 - Apr 2024
Mitsuba 3: A Retargetable Forward and Inverse Renderer
Contributions:38 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 6 months
mitsubarendererinverseforward
ksalesin/pro-website
Jun 2016 - Jan 2024
Contributions:3 PRs, 90 pushes, 9 branches in 7 years 7 months
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