University of Toronto
William ChanCo-founder and CTO · IdeogramResearcher↗
Researcher · Founder · Executive
Mohammad Norouzi
IdeogramCo-founder and CEO
Norouzi co-founded Ideogram to make visual communication more expressive with generative AI. At Google Brain he contributed to SimCLR, a major self-supervised vision method, and Imagen, an influential text-to-image model, connecting representation learning with high-quality image generation.
Career & education
Current roleIdeogramDec 2022-presentCo-founder and CEO
IdeogramDec 2022-presentPreviously
Google Brain2016-2022Senior Staff Research Scientist
Google Brain2016-2022Education
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.
citations117,939As of Nov 1, '26
citations+2,799Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
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