Summary
Valentin Deschaintre is a Senior Research Scientist with 13 years of experience at the intersection of computer vision, graphics and machine/deep learning, currently leading research at Adobe on image and 3D asset generation, understanding and editing. He has a strong academic foundation with a PhD from Inria and prior research roles at Imperial College London, and a track record of publishing in top venues (TOG, EGSR/Siggraph) on material capture and realistic appearance modeling. At Adobe he has focused on bridging cutting-edge generative and inverse-rendering research into products like Photoshop and Substance, enabling real-world tech transfer. His background spans both research and production engineering—from VR platform development and simulation to large-scale data processing—giving him a practical lens on deployable ML systems. Based in the UK, he combines deep domain expertise in appearance and rendering with experience advising PhD students and solving industrial challenges, making him adept at turning complex imaging research into usable product features.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Inria
Computer Science engineer, Computer Science - Imaging, Interaction and Virtual Reality, Computer Science engineer, Computer Science - Imaging, Interaction and Virtual Reality at University of Technology Belfort-Montbéliard
French, English, German