MIT
UC Berkeley
Amit JainCo-founder and CEO · Luma AIResearcher↗Both at Luma AI
Researcher · Executive
Matthew Tancik
Luma AIHead of Applied Research
Tancik co-created NeRF, a method that reconstructs navigable 3D scenes from ordinary photographs, and helped build Nerfstudio, an open toolkit that made the technique easier to use. At Luma AI, he applies these ideas to generative video and controllable visual-world models.
Career & education
Current roleLuma AI2023-presentHead of Applied Research
Luma AI2023-presentEducation
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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.
citations42,901As of Jun 15, '26
citations+10,505Since last snapshot, Aug 25, '25
Selected contributions
NeRF: Representing Scenes as Neural Radiance Fields for View Synthesis
NeRF learns a 3D scene from photos to render it from new viewpoints.
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