PeopleofSuperintelligence

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Dan Kondratyuk

Dan Kondratyuk is a machine-learning researcher whose work links multilingual language processing, efficient video recognition and generative video. Raised in Boise, he earned a computer-science degree from Boise State in 2017 and an Erasmus Mundus joint M.S. in computational linguistics at Charles University and Saarland University in 2019; his early models include LemmaTag and UDify. At Google, he moved from AI Resident to Senior Machine Learning Engineer and created MoViNets; at Luma AI, he joined as a Research Scientist in March 2024 and led the World Models team behind Dream Machine. VideoPoet won the 2024 ICML Best Paper award, and he coauthored MALT Diffusion for long-video generation in 2025. As of October 2026, he is a co-founder of rekursiv.ai, where he works on AI systems that run experiments and produce new knowledge.

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Timeline

  1. 2017

    A Boise State degree

    Raised in Boise, he earns a computer-science degree from Boise State in 2017. He credits an early fascination with computers for his interest in programming.

  2. 2018–2019

    LemmaTag and UDify

    He completes an Erasmus Mundus joint M.S. in computational linguistics at Charles University and Saarland University in 2019. In 2018, he coauthors LemmaTag, a neural model for joint part-of-speech tagging and lemmatization. His 2019 model UDify predicts universal part-of-speech, morphology, lemmas and dependency trees across 75 languages.

  3. 2021

    MoViNets for streaming video

    He creates MoViNets with Google colleagues, a family of efficient mobile video networks for action recognition on streaming video. Its Stream Buffer separates memory use from clip length and supports online inference with a small, constant memory footprint.

  4. By March 2024

    Google's AI Residency

    He joins Google's AI Residency and moves into a full-time machine-learning role, advancing to Senior Machine Learning Engineer. His 2023 Integrated Multimodal Perception work combines image, video, audio and text in a mixture-of-experts model.

  5. March 2024

    Research Scientist at Luma

    In March 2024, he joins Luma AI as a Research Scientist and develops features behind Dream Machine. He leads the World Models team on real-time interactive video, joint audio generation, avatar speech-to-video and camera control.

  6. 2024

    ICML Best Paper for VideoPoet

    His coauthored VideoPoet wins ICML's 2024 Best Paper award. The multimodal language model uses a decoder-only transformer to generate video from image, video, text and audio inputs.

  7. 2025

    MALT Diffusion for long videos

    He coauthors MALT Diffusion, a memory-augmented latent transformer model for long video generation. It generates video in short segments and carries a compact memory across them to retain long-range context.

  8. As of October 2026

    Co-founder of rekursiv.ai

    He is a co-founder of rekursiv.ai, where the team builds autonomous systems that form hypotheses, design experiments and discover new knowledge. In October 2026, he coauthors a study of a 15-million-parameter reinforcement-learning agent that beats Craftax's final boss in 44% of its games.

Career

  1. Nowrekursiv.aiCo-founder
  2. Until 2024GoogleAI Resident
  3. From 2024Luma AIResearch Scientist

Education

  1. 2019Charles UniversityM.S.
  2. 2019Saarland UniversityM.S.
  3. 2017Boise State UniversityComputer science degree

From the biography.

  1. 16% of AI career moves in the 2020s went from a university to a companyIncludes Dan Kondratyuk. We estimate that 16% of AI career moves in the 2020s went from a university to a company; 29% of moves starting at a university went to a company, and 76% ended the university role.
  2. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Includes Google. Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI each year from 1955 to 2025, tracing the shift from university labs to companies.
  3. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Google. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.
  4. 20% of people at companies who shape AI also hold a university role, led by Google and Stanford UniversityIncludes Google. We estimate that 539 of the 6,766 people with a known current organization (8%) hold both a university role and a company role, including 20% of people at companies and 13% of people at universities.

Sources and credits

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  1. Featured Student: Dan Kondratyuk boisestate.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Erasmus Mundus Retrospective: Charles University in Prague, Year 1 dankondratyuk.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. About · Dan Kondratyuk dankondratyuk.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. 75 Languages, 1 Model: Parsing Universal Dependencies Universally aclanthology.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. MoViNets: Mobile Video Networks for Efficient Video Recognition research.google. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. VideoPoet – Google Research sites.research.google. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. ICML 2024 Awards icml.cc. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. MALT Diffusion: Memory-Augmented Latent Transformers for Any-Length Video Generation arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  9. rekursiv.ai, Autonomously Create Knowledge rekursiv.ai. Checked 21 October 2026.
  10. A 15M-parameter RL agent trained from scratch vs GPT-6 Astra: who would win? rekursiv.ai. Checked 21 October 2026.