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Researcher · Engineer
Timo Aila
NVIDIASenior Distinguished Research Scientist
Aila co-created StyleGAN, the model family that set a new standard for controllable, photorealistic face generation. His broader work spans real-time graphics, neural rendering and efficient computer vision, including early contributions to NVIDIA's RTX ray-tracing hardware.
Career & education
Current role
Senior Distinguished Research Scientist
Previously
Education
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.
citations74,321As of Jun 15, '26
citations+12,371Since last snapshot, Aug 25, '25
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