I am currently a senior research scientist at Kyoso, previously at Meta AI (FAIR / GenAI).

I completed my PhD at Tel Aviv University, in the Computer Graphics lab led by Daniel Cohen-Or, followed by a post-doc position at Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'École Polytechnique (LIX).

My research initially focused on shape analysis, segmentation, and shape matching. In recent years I have been working on a blend of ML and computer graphics, including generative 3D modeling and texturing, image and video generation, multi-modal post training of LLM/VLM, conversational agents, and specialized applications such as motion graphics and animation.

Some of my latest projects include:

• Generation of animation tracks and keyframe information from text descriptions
• Pre-training and post-training of Llama models
• 3D shape generation and texture generation
• Generative modeling, procedural modeling, and procedural shading
• Point cloud generation and clean up
• Image denoising, reconstruction and classification in a VFX production environment

It is always best to contact me by email: yanirk@gmail.com.

I currently live in London, and can also be reached by the following phone number: +44 73 053 14271.