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Piotr Dąbkowski

Also known as Piotr Dabkowski

As of October 2026, Piotr Dąbkowski is ElevenLabs' co-founder and CTO, leading research and engineering teams that develop AI audio models. He studied engineering at Oxford and computer science at Cambridge, worked at Opera Software, Tessian, and Google, and coauthored a 2017 NeurIPS paper on image saliency. In 2022, he cofounded ElevenLabs to improve film dubbing, and the company launched a classifier for AI-generated speech in 2023. TIME named him among its 100 most influential people in AI in 2024. He coauthored the introductions of the expressive Eleven v3 and Eleven v4 text-to-speech models in 2025 and 2026.

Now at
ElevenLabs
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Timeline

  1. 2017

    A NeurIPS saliency paper

    He studies engineering at Oxford and advanced computer science at Cambridge. In 2017, he and Yarin Gal publish a fast saliency method for image classifiers at NeurIPS.

  2. By 2022

    Software and machine-learning roles

    His career includes software work at Opera Software and cyber-security engineering at Tessian. At Google in Zurich, he develops and deploys large-scale machine-learning models before cofounding ElevenLabs in 2022.

  3. 2022

    Co-founding ElevenLabs

    In 2022, he cofounds ElevenLabs with Mateusz Staniszewski to improve film dubbing through generative audio and make content accessible in any language.

  4. June 2023

    An AI speech classifier

    In June 2023, ElevenLabs launches an AI Speech Classifier that identifies audio generated by the company and introduces Studio for long-form spoken content.

  5. 2024

    TIME100 AI recognition

    TIME names him among its 100 most influential people in AI in 2024 for his voice-cloning work.

  6. June 2025

    Introducing Eleven v3

    In June 2025, he coauthors ElevenLabs' Eleven v3 launch post, introducing a text-to-speech model designed for expressive speech generation.

  7. As of October 2026

    Leading ElevenLabs research

    As of October 2026, he is ElevenLabs' CTO and co-founder, leading research and engineering teams that develop AI audio models. In September 2026, he coauthors the announcement for Eleven v4, an emotive text-to-speech model.

Sources and credits

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  1. Real Time Image Saliency for Black Box Classifiers proceedings.neurips.cc. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. Paneliści 26. Konferencji Rynku Kapitałowego | IDM - Izba Domów Maklerskich konferencja.idm.com.pl. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. What is ElevenLabs? | ElevenLabs Documentation elevenlabs.io. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. ElevenLabs Launches New Generative Voice AI Products and Announces $19m Series A Round Led by Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and Andreessen Horowitz elevenlabs.io. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. Introducing Eleven v3 (alpha) elevenlabs.io. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. ElevenLabs — Access press materials elevenlabs.io. Checked 14 October 2026.
  7. Piotr Dabkowski elevenlabs.io. Checked 14 October 2026.
  8. Introducing Eleven v4, our most emotive model elevenlabs.io. Checked 14 October 2026.