Ondrej Texler
Principal Research Scientist at Valka.AI
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolOndrej Texler is a Principal Research Scientist based in Los Angeles with eight years of deep expertise in generative AI, neural rendering, and photoreal virtual humans. He leads core avatar research at Valka.ai after driving revenue-generating avatar and deferred neural rendering work at HeyGen and building end-to-end text-to-video and stylized animation frameworks at Drip.Art. His background spans industry leaders (Samsung Research, Adobe, Snap) and combines GANs, transformer- and diffusion-based models, and audio-driven motion modeling to make expressive, human-centric video models. A PhD-trained computer scientist, he pairs rigorous research with product-focused delivery—shipping novel rapid-training schemes and real-time style-transfer systems that moved prototypes into production. Less obvious: he bridges low-level graphics and large-scale generative modeling, enabling both real-time portrait stylization and high-fidelity avatar pipelines.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Czech Technical University in PragueDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in PragueMathematics and Physics, Mathematics and Physics at Gymnázium Christiana Dopplera
English, Czech
Github Skills (26)
siggraph10
image-synthesis9
style-transfer9
google-colaboratory9
computer-vision8
google-colab8
pytorch7
jupyter-notebook6
synthesis6
generative-adversarial-network6
computer-graphics5
deep-learning5
patch5
speech4
machine-learning4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
OndrejTexler/Neurally-Guided-Style-Transfer
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:46 commits, 10 pushes, 5 comments in 4 months
OndrejTexler/ebsynth
Aug 2018 - Mar 2020
Fast Example-based Image Synthesis and Style Transfer
Contributions:12 commits, 9 pushes in 1 year 6 months
example-basedsynthesisstyle-transferimage-synthesis
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