Aleksander Holynski is a professor at Columbia University, and leads a team at Google DeepMind working on generative 3D and world models. Previously, he was a postdoctoral scholar at Berkeley AI Research, working with Alyosha Efros and Angjoo Kanazawa. He received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington, where he was advised by Steve Seitz, Brian Curless, and Rick Szeliski, and a B.S. with High Honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on computer vision, computer graphics, machine learning, and generative models, including work on Veo, Genie, and Gemini. His work has been recognized with best paper awards at ICCV 2023, CVPR 2024, and CVPR 2025.