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Matthew Tancik

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Head of Applied Research at Luma AI

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.

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Head of Applied Research
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Last editorial review: August 8, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Jun 15, '2642,90137,64932,396Aug 25, '25Jun 15, '26
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