Shanghai Jiao Tong University
UC San Diego
Yann LeCunCo-founder and Executive Chairman · AMI LabsResearcher↗
Researcher · Academic · Founder · Executive
Saining Xie
AMI LabsCo-founder and Chief Science Officer
New York UniversityAssistant Professor
Xie co-created ResNeXt, an influential design for image recognition, and the diffusion Transformer, which places the Transformer architecture inside an image-generation system[1] and became a foundation for models such as Sora. He now develops world models that learn from images, video, and physical experience.
Career & education
Current rolesAMI Labs2026-presentCo-founder and Chief Science OfficerNew York University2023-presentAssistant Professor
AMI Labs2026-presentNew York University2023-presentPreviously
Google DeepMind2024-2026Research Scientist
Meta2018-2022Staff Research Scientist
Google DeepMind2024-2026Meta2018-2022Work 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.
citations123,966As of Nov 1, '26
citations+4,389Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
References
- Scalable Diffusion Models with Transformersarxiv.org
the diffusion Transformer, which places the Transformer architecture inside an image-generation system
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