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.