Cristóbal Valenzuela
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Cristóbal Valenzuela is a Chilean-born technologist, software developer, and co-founder and CEO of RunwayML.[1][2]
Education
Valenzuela graduated from the Adolfo Ibáñez University(AIU), a research private university in Chile. From there, Valenzuela obtained a bachelor's degree in economics and business management, along with a master's degree in arts in design in 2012.
Career and Recognition
One of Valenzuela's first jobs as as a teaching and research assistant at the Adolfo Ibáñez University School of Design, and later an Adjunct Professor in the same department. In 2018, he became a researcher at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts ITP program[3], where he worked with Daniel Shiffman. He has also worked for Idemax, and contributes to open-source software projects, including ml5js, an open-source machine learning software.[4]
He co-founded RunwayML with two colleagues from ITP, Anastasis Germanidis and Alejandro Matamala.[1] In recent years, Valenzuela's work has been sponsored by Google and the Processing Foundation and his projects have been exhibited throughout Latin America and the US, including the Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, Lollapalooza, NYC Media Lab, New Latin Wave, Inter-American Development Bank, Stanford University and New York University.[5]
References
- ^ a b "Runway Raises $8.5M Series A to Build the Next Generation of Creative Tools". www.businesswire.com. 2020-12-16. Retrieved 2021-12-28.
- ^ García, Beatriz (2021-01-07). "The Latinx startup that will make Adobe sweat". AL DÍA News. Retrieved 2021-12-28.
- ^ "Interview with RunwayML founder Cristóbal Valenzuela". Paperspace Blog. 2020-10-30. Retrieved 2021-12-28.
- ^ "ml5js·Friendly Machine Learning For The Web". ml5js.org. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
- ^ "Cristobal Valenzuela". New Latin Wave. Retrieved 2021-11-05.