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Pinscreen is an American technology company and VFX studio that develops the most advanced generative AI technologies for film production and interactive experiences with its headquarter in Los Angeles and branch in Abu Dhabi (UAE).
The company offers end-to-end solutions for AI lip sync, face reenactment, face swaps, de-aging, and avatar digitization. Pinscreen works with some of the most prolific film makers and production studios, and its customers include Netflix, Amazon Studios, Miramax, Warner Bros, Apple, Google, Adobe, DARPA.
Among its accolades, in 2019, Pinscreen developed the first real-time deepfake technology which was presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and SIGGRAPH 2020. The company is also the first to demonstrate AI lip sync for a complete feature film, and the ability to process over thousands of 4K HDR movie shots within a year. Pinscreen is part of the NVIDIA Inception Program and won the Epic MegaGrants in 2020.
Pinscreen was founded in 2015 by Prof. Hao Li, MIT TR35 winner and Professor of Computer Vision at MBZUAI. He is known for his contributions in Apple’s Animoji technology, the reenactment of Paul Walker in Furious 7, and actively innovates in the space of neural rendering, deepfakes, and digital humans.
Our Team
\ Hao Li, PhD \ \ Co-founder, CEO](https://hao-li.com/) \ Frances Chen \ \ Co-founder, CFO](/content/about-us-company/index.html) \ Cosimo Wei, PhD \ \ CTO](http://cosimo.cn/) \ Liwen Hu, PhD \ \ VP of R&D](http://www-scf.usc.edu/~liwenhu/) \ Zimo Li, PhD \ \ Principal Scientist](/content/about-us-company/index.html) \ Serge Geier \ \ Business Development](/content/about-us-company/index.html) \ Lain Goldwhite \ \ Senior Software Engineer](https://heysnapshere.com/) \ Zejian Wang \ \ Senior Software Engineer](/content/about-us-company/index.html) \ Tan Minh Dinh \ \ Research Scientist](/content/about-us-company/index.html) \ Aviral Agarwal \ \ Senior Technical Artist](https://avi.artstation.com/) \ Brandon White \ \ Animator](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonwhite000/) \ Fernando De Avila \ \ Digital Artist](/content/about-us-company/index.html) \ Luc Salles \ \ Digital Artist](https://www.linkedin.com/in/luc-salles-47555916a)
Advisory Board
\ Marc Benioff \ \ CEO, Salesforce](/content/about-us-company/index.html) \ Harry Shum \ \ EVP of AI & Research, Microsoft](/content/about-us-company/index.html) \ Gary Bradski \ \ President & CEO, OpenCV](/content/about-us-company/index.html) \ Joe Kraus \ \ Venture Partner, Google Ventures](/content/about-us-company/index.html)
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Locations
PINSCREEN | Los Angeles
Since 2015, Pinscreen has been headquartered in West Los Angeles, in the heart of Hollywood and Silicon Beach. It has attracted renowned AI researchers, engineers, and game designers from top Universities (USC, UC Berkeley, MIT) as well as world-class visual effects artists from prestigious art programs (Gnomon).
We offer mixed in-office and remote work options, and our facilities provide top of the range compute resources and GPUs for challenging AI VFX tasks. Pinscreen’s location in LA facilitates seamless work with all the major film studios, streaming companies, and the greatest film makers.
PINSCREEN | Abu Dhabi
In 2024, Pinscreen opened its first international branch in Abu Dhabi (UAE) with new investment from the Middle East. With its proximity to Bollywood (India) and East Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea), Pinscreen expanded its operations beyond Hollywood and is also providing full services to regional projects.
The Abu Dhabi office also provides additional R&D development recruiting top AI talents from the leading AI school, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), at which our founder, Hao Li, is Professor at the Computer Vision Department and Director of its Metaverse Center.