Ionut Mironica is a Principal ML Researcher and director at Adobe leading applied generative AI research for Firefly, Photoshop, Illustrator and Express, with a focus on design and vector generation. He brings over a decade of R&D experience and a PhD in multimedia information retrieval, with multiple patents and awards for shipping production-quality ML features like Neural Filters (colorisation, restoration, super-resolution) used by millions. Ionut combines hands-on model development—diffusion models and large language models—with product-focused leadership, building teams and a growing patent portfolio. Before Adobe he taught and published extensively as an associate professor and led data science and innovation teams in industry, giving him a rare mix of academic rigor and delivery at scale. Based in Bucharest, he’s passionate about democratizing creativity through AI and often bridges low-level vision research with practical design tooling.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master: Databases for Business, Master: Databases for Business at Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Cybernetics Faculty
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering, Computer Vision, Excelent, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering, Computer Vision, Excelent at University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Electronics and Telecommunications
Emerging Leader in Technology, Emerging Leader in Technology at Adobe Romania & Trend Consulting
A short introduction on deep learning solving a classical OCR problem. This project is a proof of concept performed for the Machine Learning laboratory on University Politehnica of Bucharest
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Ionut Mironica - Principal ML Researcher, Director at Adobe