Nupur Kumari, author of first thesis on customizing generative image models, joins OpenAI
junyanz89 · x · 2026-09-10
CMU PhD Nupur Kumari defended her thesis this year, joined startup Reve and is now at OpenAI working on multimodal models and image generation. Her advisor junyanz89 notes she wrote the first PhD thesis on customizing generative image models, covering Custom Diffusion, concept removal (copyrighted styles, memorized identities), and supervision strategies from few-shot optimization to synthetic paired data and feedback from pretrained vision models.
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