Midhun Harikumar — Co-Founder

Applied Science & Engineering Leader | Generative AI & Video Diffusion I specialize in bridging the gap between cutting-edge research and revenue-generating products. With a career spanning foundational roles at Amazon Go and Adobe Firefly to building the ML organization at Morphic, I have a proven track record of scaling high-performing teams and deploying state-of-the-art AI systems. Core Expertise: Building from Zero-to-One: As Founding Tech Lead at Morphic, I established the ML department and office, scaling a cross-functional team of researchers and engineers from 1 to 7. Generative AI Strategy: Led the development of Adobe’s first revenue-recognizing Enterprise Generative AI product and managed the "Mega Custom Models" initiative for global clients. Deep Technical Leadership: Expert in the mid-training, SFT, and post-training of large-scale video diffusion models, focusing on 3D motion and temporal consistency. Operational Excellence: Architected in-house data flywheels and automated training pipelines to accelerate model iteration and deployment. I am passionate about mentoring a mix of junior and senior scientists to foster a culture of technical excellence while aligning technical roadmaps with commercial business goals. My work is grounded in 10+ US patents and publications in top-tier venues like SIGGRAPH and ECCV.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Generative AI and Machine Learning expert in the SaaS industry.

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States

Experience: 12 yrs 3 mos

Skills

Generative Ai Strategy
Technical Leadership
Generative Ai

Career Highlights

Established ML department from scratch at Morphic.
Led Adobe's first revenue-generating Generative AI product.
Expert in large-scale video diffusion models.

Work Experience

Stealth

Co-Founder (3 mos)

Morphic

Founding Tech Lead and Manager (1 yr 6 mos)

Adobe

Engineering Manager, Machine Learning (10 mos)

Senior Applied Scientist, Machine Learning (4 yrs 1 mo)

Applied Scientist, Machine Learning (1 yr 4 mos)

Amazon

Software Development Engineer (1 yr 9 mos)

Rochester Institute of Technology

Graduate Research Assistant (7 mos)

Graduate Teaching Assistant (4 mos)

ITS Lab Services Office Assistant (7 mos)

Eastman Kodak Company

Graduate Technical Intern (3 mos)

Icarus Design Pvt Ltd

Innovations Engineer (1 yr 3 mos)

ThinkLABS Technosolutions Pvt. Ltd.

Intern (2 mos)

Education

Master of Science (M.S.) at Rochester Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at Karunya University

HighSchool at The Choice School

Midhun Harikumar

Co-Founder

Santa Clara, California, United States12 yrs 3 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Established ML department from scratch at Morphic.
Led Adobe's first revenue-generating Generative AI product.
Expert in large-scale video diffusion models.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Generative AI and Machine Learning expert in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Generative Ai StrategyTechnical LeadershipGenerative Ai

Other Skills

Team LeadershipProduct StrategySFT (Supervised Fine-Tuning)Cross-functional CollaborationDiffusion ModelsLarge Language Models (LLM)PyTorchApplied ResearchDiffusionText-to-Image GenerationConditional Image GenerationC++MatlabCMicrocontrollers

About

Experience

12 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 9 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 6 mos

Current Experience

Stealth

Co-Founder

Mar 2026 – Present · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

Morphic

Founding Tech Lead and Manager

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · On-site

Team LeadershipProduct StrategySFT (Supervised Fine-Tuning)Cross-functional CollaborationDiffusion ModelsLarge Language Models (LLM)+34

Adobe

3 roles

Engineering Manager, Machine Learning

Feb 2024 – Dec 2024 · 10 mos

Led the Enterprise foundational model team at Adobe, specializing in zero-shot character customizations for foundational models.
Co-deployed Adobe custom models for Enterprise applications, significantly enhancing functionality and user experience.
Spearheaded Project Lego, a multi-modal image editing initiative, driving innovation in machine learning applications.
Managed a talented team of 5 applied scientists and engineers, fostering collaboration and creativity.

PyTorchTechnical LeadershipApplied ResearchDiffusion ModelsGenerative AI

Senior Applied Scientist, Machine Learning

Promoted

Jan 2020 – Feb 2024 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Led the development of Generative AI capabilities for Adobe Firefly and flagship products.
Spearheaded controlled face generation using GAN models and advanced diffusion model development for Adobe Photoshop.
Introduced key components to demo infrastructure and evaluation methodologies for diffusion model research.
Co-led enhancements to foundational models, driving innovation in texture and depth-conditioned generation.

PyTorchConditional Image GenerationLarge Language Models (LLM)Generative AITechnical LeadershipApplied Research+2

Applied Scientist, Machine Learning

Sep 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

PyTorchApplied Research

Amazon

Software Development Engineer

Oct 2016 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater Boston

Developed algorithms for identifying planar surfaces on non-rigid objects in high-speed conveyor environments. Designed the camera rig and algorithms for multi-sensor fusion and detection.
Enhanced 3D pattern recognition algorithms for real-time inference, improving system responsiveness.
Created onboard computer vision algorithms and semantic search functionalities for Amazon-Dash shopping carts initiative.https://www.youtube.com/@AmazonDashCart/videos

PyTorchApplied Research

Rochester institute of technology

3 roles

Graduate Research Assistant

Jan 2016 – Aug 2016 · 7 mos

OCR engine research for HP Inc under the supervision of Dr Eli Saber.

PyTorch

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Aug 2015 – Dec 2015 · 4 mos

Teaching assistant to Dr Eli Saber at the Kate Gleason College of Engineering for a class of 50 . Engineering analysis including matrix methods and differential equations.

ITS Lab Services Office Assistant

Jan 2015 – Aug 2015 · 7 mos

Supervise the smooth functioning of IT services maintained labs and lab assistants. Crisis management and handling scheduling for staffing the labs.

Eastman kodak company

Graduate Technical Intern

May 2015 – Aug 2015 · 3 mos · Rochester

Working with image processing algorithms to design High density 2D datamatrix detection and decoding algorithms and porting to an android based smartphone app.

Icarus design pvt ltd

Innovations Engineer

Mar 2013 – Jun 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore , India

Innovation and development of new products in electronics , mechanics and smart medical devices.

Thinklabs technosolutions pvt. ltd.

Intern

May 2011 – Jul 2011 · 2 mos · Mumbai

Responsible for providing hands on training in AVR embedded micro-controllers and embedded systems for students. Part of student training team responsible for conducting embedded systems training and providing hands on support to students attending training workshops.