Cornell University
University of Padua
Volodymyr KuleshovCo-founder and Chief Scientist · InceptionFounder↗
Researcher · Academic · Founder · Executive
Stefano Ermon
InceptionCo-founder and CEO
Stanford UniversityAssociate Professor
Ermon helped develop a foundation of modern image generators: models that learn to create data by gradually removing noise. He later co-founded Inception, whose Mercury models apply a similar idea to generating text faster than conventional language models.
Career & education
Current roles
Co-founder and CEO
Associate Professor
Previously
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.
citations154,775As of Nov 1, '26
citations+6,581Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
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Selected contributions
Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model
DPO trains language models directly on comparisons of preferred and rejected answers.
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