Sumith Kulal

Co-Founder

Palo Alto, California, United States11 yrs 5 mos experience
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  • Co-founder of a generative media technology startup.
  • Research scientist with experience in advanced computational models.
  • Contributed to open-source projects and Google Summer of Code.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a generative media technology expert with a strong research background.

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About

Hello 👋 I am a co-founder and research scientist at Black Forest Labs. Our mission is to advance the state-of-the-art of generative media models and to push the boundaries of creativity, efficiency, and access to this technology.

Experience

11 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs
Average Tenure
2 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Black forest labs

Co-Founder

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

Stability ai

Research Scientist

Jun 2023 – Mar 2024 · 9 mos

Adobe

Research Intern

Jun 2022 – Mar 2023 · 9 mos · San Jose, California, United States · Hybrid

Microsoft

Research Intern

Jun 2019 – Sep 2019 · 3 mos · Redmond

Stanford university

PhD Student

Sep 2018 – Jun 2023 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Stanford, CA

University of washington

Research Intern

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • I have previously worked with with Rohin Shah and Prof. Ras Bodik on scalable expression synthesis and automatic incrementalization using the same. This started off as my summer internship at the PLSE lab.

Epfl (école polytechnique fédérale de lausanne)

Research Intern

May 2016 – Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Lausanne Area, Switzerland

  • I have previously worked with Ravi Madhavan and Prof. Viktor Kuncak on resource bounds verification for functional Scala programs that is now a part of the Leon verification and synthesis system. This was a part of my summer internship at the LARA lab.

Indian institute of technology, bombay

Teaching Assistant

Jul 2015 – Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Responsible for leading weekly sessions, discussing assignments, conceptualising and creating graded programming assignments and practice questions for the following four courses:
  • CS 615 - Formal Specification and Verification of Programs under Prof. Supratik Chakraborty
  • CS 228 - Logic for Computer Science under Prof. Krishna Subramanian (TA of the month)
  • CS 213x - Data Structures and Algorithms under Prof. Ajit A. Diwan
  • MA 105 - Advanced Calculus under Prof. I.K.Rana

Python software foundation

Google Summer of Code

Apr 2015 – Aug 2015 · 4 mos · Remote

  • I completed my Google Summer of Code 2015 project "Implementing Polynomial module in CSymPy" under the mentorship of Dr. OndÅ™ej ÄŒertík.

Symengine

Core Developer

Jan 2015 – Sep 2018 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Remote

  • Core-developer and maintainer of SymEngine and a contributor to SymPy for over 3 years now. I completed my Google Summer of Code under the mentorship of Dr. OndÅ™ej ÄŒertík. I have also volunteered as a mentor for GSoC in the future editions.

Education

Stanford University

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD — Computer Science

Jan 2018 – Jan 2023

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Bachelor’s Degree — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2014 – Jan 2018