Zoya Bylinskii
Senior Research Scientist @ Adobe
Zoya Bylinskii, Ph.D., is leading the Scientific Evaluation for Adobe's Firefly's suite of generative imaging and video models.
From 2018 to 2023, she was a Senior Research Scientist in the Imaging & Languages Lab at
Adobe Research. She was an Executive Board Member of
The Readability Consortium ('22-'23), an affiliate at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ('21) and at
Harvard Institute of Applied Computational Science ('19-'20).
Zoya received her Computer Science Ph.D. from MIT in 2018, and an Hon. B.Sc. in Computer Science and Statistics,
with a focus on AI, from the University of Toronto in 2012.
Zoya was a 2023 Adobe Founder's Award Recipient, 2018 EECS Rising Star, 2016 Adobe Research Fellow, 2014-2016 NSERC Postgraduate Scholar, 2013 Julie Payette Research Scholar, and 2011 Anita Borg Scholar.
In 2021-2022, Zoya and her collaborators received a number of recognitions for their efforts on personalized reading
(read more).
At Adobe, she's been recognized by the Digital Media organization's Impact Award and Women at Adobe Leadership program and has served on the Patent and Intern Program committees.
Zoya's expertise lies at the interface of human perception & cognition, machine learning, and human-computer interaction -
with applications to photography, graphic design, readability, and generative AI.
My MIT page contains my research and activities prior to 2018.