PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Grant Schindler

Grant Schindler is a computer vision researcher whose work connects phone-based 3D scanning, vehicle imaging and generative video. He graduated from Georgia Tech with a computer science degree in 2003 and a Ph.D. in 2010, then created Trimensional for iPhone 3D scans. After Carvana acquired Car360 in 2018, he joined the company as chief computer vision scientist. He later coauthored VideoPoet for multimodal video generation and CamViG for camera-controlled video. VideoPoet won ICML's Best Paper award in 2024; in 2025, he contributed to The Wizard of Oz at Sphere and appeared on a Carvana patent for virtual item displays.

Now at
Carvana
Badges

Timeline

  1. 2003–2010

    A Georgia Tech CS degree

    He completes a computer science degree at Georgia Tech in 2003 and earns a computer science Ph.D. in 2010.

  2. 2008–2011

    Building Trimensional

    Trimensional begins as a desktop program in 2008. In 2011, he creates an iPhone version that uses the screen and front-facing camera to scan faces and objects in 3D.

  3. 2018

    Car360 joins Carvana

    Carvana acquires Car360 in 2018, and Schindler joins the company as chief computer vision scientist. Car360 uses mobile photos, 3D computer vision, machine learning and augmented reality to improve vehicle images.

  4. 2023

    VideoPoet for video generation

    He coauthors VideoPoet in 2023, a decoder-only transformer that processes images, video, text and audio to generate high-quality video with matching audio.

  5. May 2024

    Camera control in CamViG

    In May 2024, he coauthors CamViG, which uses 3D camera motion as a conditioning signal for image-to-video generation.

  6. 2024

    VideoPoet wins an ICML Best Paper

    VideoPoet receives a Best Paper award at ICML in 2024, with Schindler in its author list.

  7. April 2025

    AI work for the Sphere

    In April 2025, he contributes to many aspects of The Wizard of Oz at Sphere project, which uses Google's generative AI to bring the 1939 film to Sphere's 160,000-square-foot interior screen.

  8. May 2025

    A virtual display patent

    In May 2025, he is named as an inventor on a Carvana application that reorders image sequences to create a video display of an item.

Career

  1. From 2018CarvanaChief computer vision scientist

Education

  1. 2010Georgia Institute of TechnologyPhD
  2. 2003Georgia Institute of TechnologyComputer science degree

From the biography.

  1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Grant Schindler. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  2. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes Georgia Institute of Technology. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  3. People shaping AI work at a median of 3 organizations over a career: 3 for university starters and institute and lab starters, versus 2 for company startersIncludes Georgia Institute of Technology. Across 6,853 people shaping AI with a dated work role, we estimate a median of 3 parent organizations over a career (mean 3.6), comparing role groups, starting sectors and starting decades from the 1950s to 2020–2026.
  4. 84% of people shaping AI with recorded undergraduate and doctoral schools changed institutions for their doctorateIncludes Georgia Institute of Technology. 84% of people shaping AI with recorded undergraduate and doctoral schools changed institutions for their doctorate. Across 2,116 people with both an undergraduate degree and a doctorate recorded, we trace which undergraduate schools feed which doctoral programs, how often students stay at the same school, and how paths differ by birth-country region.

Sources and credits

Photo: We have no published photo of Grant Schindler yet. Send us a free-licensed photo.

  1. Lions, Tigers and Tech—Oh My! Alumni Help Dorothy Debut in Ultra-HD at Sphere cc.gatech.edu. Checked 22 October 2026.
  2. Georgia Tech Scientist Creates 3-D Scanner iPhone App newswise.com. Checked 22 October 2026.
  3. Carvana acquires Car360 for $22M to improve its car-buying platform techcrunch.com. Checked 22 October 2026.
  4. VideoPoet: A Large Language Model for Zero-Shot Video Generation arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  5. VideoPoet – Google Research sites.research.google. Checked 22 October 2026.
  6. CamViG: Camera Aware Image-to-Video Generation with Multimodal Transformers arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  7. ICML 2024 Awards icml.cc. Checked 22 October 2026.
  8. US20250156992A1 - Systems and methods for generating a virtual display of an item - Google Patents patents.google.com. Checked 22 October 2026.