Elman Mansimov

Elman Mansimov (b. 1996, Azerbaijan) is an American scientist and the lead developer of the alignDRAW model, widely credited as the first text-to-image generation model, published in the academic paper "Generating Images from Captions with Attention" in 2015. The model flipped an image labeling system to enact the opposite effect by turning text to an image. Mansimov aspires to make progress in natural language processing and deep learning, leading to substantial benefits for users.

Mansimov holds a Ph.D. from New York University and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.