Omri Avrahami
Research Scientist at Runway
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolOmri Avrahami is a generative AI researcher and Member of Technical Staff (Research) with 11 years of experience building cutting-edge ML systems across industry and academia. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has interned or conducted research at top labs including FAIR, Google Research, NVIDIA Research, and Snap Research before joining Runway. His work spans applied research and product-focused model development, with a track record at startups (Pika, Lightricks) and deep industry labs, signaling an ability to move ideas from papers to production. Based in Israel, he combines rigorous academic training with hands-on engineering from an early software-development background in Military Intelligence. Notably, his public-facing portfolio emphasizes generative AI, suggesting a focus on creative media and synthesis applications rather than only foundational models. Colleagues would describe him as a researcher who bridges novel algorithms and practical deployment constraints.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy, PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, PhD Computer Science at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Github Skills (27)
text-to-image10
inversion10
image-synthesis10
openai-clip10
multimodal-deep-learning10
diffusion-models10
generative-adversarial-network10
siggraph10
segmentation10
clip10
image-manipulation10
inpainting10
survey10
generative-model10
editing10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
omriav/omriav.github.io
Feb 2022 - Oct 2025
Contributions:57 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
omriav/blended-latent-diffusion
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
Official implementation for "Blended Latent Diffusion" [SIGGRAPH 2023]
Contributions:3 commits, 9 pushes, 15 comments in 6 months
siggraphdeep-learningmultimodalmultimodal-deep-learningtext-guided-manipulation
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