Elman Mansimov
b. 1996, Azerbaijan. Lives and works in NYC, USA
Biography
“The alignDRAW 2015 project by Elman Mansimov marks the beginning of a new paradigm in image creation… It is difficult to overstate the historical significance of the first visual results produced by generative AI research in the 2010s - alignDRAW images can be compared to the first fixed photographs taken by Niépce in 1826-1827.”
- Dr Lev Manovich
Details
Elman Mansimov is a Senior Applied Scientist residing in New York City. He completed his Ph.D. at New York University under the guidance of Kyunghyun Cho. His doctoral thesis centered around iterative refinement as a comprehensive approach for structured prediction, with specific applications to machine translation and molecule generation.
Prior to his doctoral studies, at the age of 15 he started an undergraduate degree in Computer Science at the University of Toronto, where he was supervised by Ruslan Salakhutdinov. During this period, Mansimov led a team of developers who created alignDRAW, widely credited as the first text-into-image generation model. The artwork from alignDRAW was first published in the academic paper, ‘Generating Images from Captions with Attention’, in 2015.
In Feb 2024, The Worcester Art Museum announced their acquisition of 3 alignDRAW artworks.