IIT Delhi
Université de Montréal
Jakob UszkoreitFounding Advisor · PrometheusResearcher↗
Researcher · Founder · Executive
Sherjil Ozair
PrometheusFounding member
Career & education
Current rolePrometheus2025-presentFounding member
Prometheus2025-presentPreviously
General Agents2024-2025Founder and CEO
Tesla2023-2024Research Scientist
Google DeepMind2020-2023Research Scientist
General Agents2024-2025Tesla2023-2024Google DeepMind2020-2023Education
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.
citations151,017As of Nov 1, '26
citations+1,552Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
Selected contributions
Generative Adversarial Networks
With Ian Goodfellow, Jean Pouget-Abadie, Mehdi Mirza, Bing Xu, David Warde-Farley, Aaron Courville and Yoshua BengioGANs pit two networks against each other: one creates examples while the other learns to spot fakes.
Genie: Generative Interactive Environments
With Jake Bruce, Michael D Dennis, Ashley Edwards, Jack Parker-Holder, Yuge Shi, Edward Hughes, Matthew Lai and others ·Genie learns from videos to turn an image into a controllable virtual world.
References
- Generative Adversarial Networksarxiv.org
Ozair co-authored the original generative adversarial networks paper, introducing AI that learns to generate realistic examples through competition between two networks.
- Genie: Generative Interactive Environmentsarxiv.org
He later helped create Genie, which learns from videos to generate interactive worlds that users can explore and control.
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Reviewed August 8, 2026 · Checked for accuracy and new information.
