Karsten Kreis

Karsten Kreis is a senior research scientist at the NVIDIA Toronto AI Lab. Prior to joining NVIDIA, he worked on deep generative modeling at D-Wave Systems and co-founded Variational AI, a startup utilizing generative models for drug discovery. Karsten did his M.Sc. in quantum information theory at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and his Ph.D. in computational and statistical physics at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. Currently, Karsten's research focuses on developing novel generative learning methods as well as on applying deep generative models on problems in areas such as computer vision, graphics, and digital artistry.
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Posts by Karsten Kreis

Agentic AI / Generative AI Mar 25, 2026

Designing Protein Binders Using the Generative Model Proteina-Complexa

Developing new protein-based therapies and catalysts involves the challenging task of designing protein binders, or proteins that bind to a target protein or... 10 MIN READ
Computer Vision / Video Analytics Apr 26, 2022

Improving Diffusion Models as an Alternative To GANs, Part 2

This is part of a series on how researchers at NVIDIA have developed methods to improve and accelerate sampling from diffusion models, a novel and powerful... 16 MIN READ
Computer Vision / Video Analytics Apr 26, 2022

Improving Diffusion Models as an Alternative To GANs, Part 1

This is part of a series on how NVIDIA researchers have developed methods to improve and accelerate sampling from diffusion models, a novel and powerful class... 8 MIN READ