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Saining Xie

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Co-founder and Chief Science Officer at AMI LabsAssistant Professor at New York University

Xie co-created ResNeXt, an influential design for image recognition, and the diffusion Transformer, which places the Transformer architecture inside an image-generation system and became a foundation for models such as Sora. He now develops world models that learn from images, video, and physical experience.

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Background

Current roles
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer 2026-present
Assistant Professor 2023-present
Previously
2024-2026Research Scientist,
2018-2022Staff Research Scientist,
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 7, 2026

Citation Trend

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Citation history from Jun 16, '26 to Sep 1, '26116,532112,571108,610Jun 16, '26Jul 1, '26Aug 1, '26Sep 1, '26
116,532citations as of Sep 1, '26+3,814 since Aug 1, '26
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