Joan Rodriguez
Co-Founder, CEO, Chief Scientist at QuiverAI
Montreal, Quebec, United States
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Top SchoolJoan Rodriguez is an AI researcher, PhD candidate and startup founder specializing in multimodal generative models that bridge computer vision and natural language. With four years of research and industry experience across Mila, ServiceNow Research, and the Computer Vision Center, Joan focuses on transformers and diffusion models and is exploring code-as-generation (e.g., SVG) as a novel route to controllable image synthesis. Based in Montreal but originally from Barcelona, he combines academic rigor—advised by leading researchers—with hands-on product-building as Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of QuiverAI. His background spans emotion recognition, deep generative modeling, and applied ML engineering, giving him a rare blend of research depth and deployment experience. Notably, he has moved between roles in academia and industry to push multimodal foundational models toward practical, scalable applications.
4 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, Computer Science, Deep Learning, PhD, Computer Science, Computer Science, Deep Learning at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence InstituteMaster's degree, Computer Vision, Master's degree, Computer Vision at Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaPhD, Computer Science, Computer Science, Deep Learning, PhD, Computer Science, Computer Science, Deep Learning at École de technologie supérieureGrado en Ingeniería, Ingeniería de Redes de Telecomunicación, Grado en Ingeniería, Ingeniería de Redes de Telecomunicación at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Github Skills (47)
pytorch10
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
bert10
transformer10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
image-synthesis9
text-to-image9
high-resolution9
transformers9
image-resolution9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
joanrod/star-vector
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
StarVector is a foundation model for SVG generation that transforms vectorization into a code generation task. Using a vision-language modeling architecture, StarVector processes both visual and textual inputs to produce high-quality SVG code with remarkable precision.
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 16 comments in 1 year 3 months
llmmultimodal-large-language-modelssvgvlm
joanrod/paper2figure-dataset
Jul 2022 - May 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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