UC Berkeley
Alex NicholMember of Technical Staff · OpenAIResearcher↗
Researcher · Engineer · Founder
Alex Yu
OpenAIMember of Technical Staff
Yu helped build Luma AI’s Dream Machine, which generates video from text or images, and Genie, which turns text into 3D objects.[1] His pixelNeRF research creates new viewpoints from one or a few photos[2]; Plenoxels made reconstructing photorealistic 3D scenes much faster without relying on neural networks.[3]
Career & education
Current role
Member of Technical Staff
Previously
Luma AI2022-2024Co-founder and CTO
Luma AI2022-2024Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations7,381As of Oct 21, '26
citations+546Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26
References
- Alex Yu — personal websitealexyu.net
Yu helped build Luma AI’s Dream Machine, which generates video from text or images, and Genie, which turns text into 3D objects.
- pixelNeRF — official projectalexyu.net
His pixelNeRF research creates new viewpoints from one or a few photos
- Plenoxels: Radiance Fields without Neural Networksarxiv.org
Plenoxels made reconstructing photorealistic 3D scenes much faster without relying on neural networks.
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