Researcher · Founder
Christoph Schuhmann
LAIONFounder and Organisational Lead
Schuhmann founded LAION, the volunteer-led nonprofit that released LAION-5B, a vast open image-and-text dataset used to train systems including Stable Diffusion. The project made large-scale multimodal training data broadly available outside major companies.
Career & education
Current roleLAION2021-presentFounder and Organisational Lead
LAION2021-presentEducation
University of ViennaWork 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.
citations12,426As of Oct 24, '26
citations+1,271Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26
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