Abhinav GuptaFounder
Carnegie Mellon University
Professor
via Carnegie Mellon University
Researcher · Founder · Executive · Academic
Yaser Sheikh
Co-founder and CEO at Sooth Labs
Consulting Professor at Carnegie Mellon University
Sheikh helped create Meta's lifelike Codec Avatars and, at CMU, led OpenPose and the Panoptic Studio, influential systems for tracking people and movement. He now leads Sooth Labs, which is developing AI to make testable forecasts about major world events.
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Current roles
Co-founder and CEO 2026-presentSooth Labs
Sooth LabsConsulting ProfessorCarnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon UniversityPreviously
2015-Aug 2025Vice President, 
Meta
MetaEducation
University of Central FloridaGhulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology
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