Nir Goren
PhD student in Computer Science at
Tel Aviv University,
supervised by
Daniel Cohen-Or and
Or Patashnik.
My research focuses on computer vision and generative models.
I am currently interning at
Lightricks
in the LTX2 modeling team.
Publications
2025
2022
ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics, 2022
2020
Experience
Research Intern — LTX2 Modeling Team
Lightricks
PhD Student — Computer Graphics Lab
2026 – Present
Tel Aviv University
Research in computer vision and generative models, supervised by Daniel Cohen-Or and Or Patashnik.
Research Student (M.Sc.) — Computer Graphics Lab
Dec 2024 – Dec 2025
Tel Aviv University
Researched generative diffusion models, investigating the relationship between the prior noise distribution and the resulting generations. Published three first-author papers.
Applied Algorithm Engineer
Mar 2022 – Dec 2023
Sightful (formerly Multinarity)
Computer vision algorithm design (Python) and implementation (C++) for augmented reality.
Unity integration (C#). User and device authentication (Kotlin, Go).
Full Stack Software Developer
Mar 2021 – Mar 2022
Assembrix Ltd
Rewrote and introduced major software components in a client-side product, involving concurrency and security (Go).
Server-side development (Node.js, GraphQL).
Programmer & Teaching Assistant — CG & Robot Motion Planning Lab
Jan 2019 – Dec 2021
Tel Aviv University
3rd place in the CG:SHOP 2019 optimization challenge. 4th place in the CG:SHOP 2021 challenge.
Developed cross-platform Python bindings for the C++ CGAL library. Built tools for simulation and visualization of multi-robot motion planning.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
2026 – Present
Tel Aviv University
Supervised by Daniel Cohen-Or and Or Patashnik.
M.Sc. in Computer Science
2023 – 2025
Tel Aviv University
Grade average: 97. Focus on image and video generative models.
B.Sc. in Computer Science
2017 – 2021
Tel Aviv University
Grade average: 94.