Joshua Dillon
Finding obvious-in-hindsight answers to never-knew-you-always-had questions.
Experience
Career
2026rekursiv.ai
Co-founderCo-Founder · Mountain View, CA · 2026 – Present
- 2025
Self-employed
Sabbatical · Mountain View, CA · 2025
- 2025
Sabbatical
Mountain View, California, United States · 2025
2024Luma AI
Staff Research Scientist · Palo Alto, CA · 2024 – 2025
2024Google DeepMind
Staff Research Scientist · Mountain View, California, United States · 2024
2011Google
Staff Research Scientist · Mountain View, California, United States · 2011 – 2024
2009Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Assistant · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · 2009 – 2011
- 2009
Microsoft Research
Intern · Redmond, Washington, United States · 2009
2008Purdue University
Lecturer · West Lafayette, Indiana, United States · 2008
2006Purdue University
Research Assistant · West Lafayette, Indiana, United States · 2006 – 2008
2007Purdue University
Teaching Assistant · West Lafayette, Indiana, United States · 2007
- 2006
Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab
Summer Scholar · Walnut Creek, California, United States · 2006
2005IBM
Extreme Blue Intern · Austin, Texas, United States · 2005
- 2005
ThermoAnalytics Inc
Intern · Calumet, Michigan, United States · 2005
2003IBM
Intern · Rochester, Minnesota, United States · 2003
2002IBM
Intern · Rochester, Minnesota, United States · 2002
- 2002
Michigan Department of Transportation
Intern · Cass City, Michigan, United States · 2002
Bio
Ex-Google, Ex-Deepmind, Ex-LumaAI staff research scientist for a combined total of 14 years. Led foundational model pre-training at Luma AI. Creator of TensorFlow Probability (1M+ downloads / month), built Veo's first prototype, contributor to Gemini and VideoPoet (ICML 2024 Best Paper). 11,600+ citations. Now co-founder of rekursiv.ai, automating the science of ML research.