Stefan Popov has a strong background in computer science and extensive experience in research and software engineering. Stefan completed a Master of Science in Informatics at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski from 1996 to 2001, followed by a Master's degree in Computer Science at Universität des Saarlandes from 2004 to 2006. From October 2006 to September 2012, Stefan worked as a PhD student at Saarland University, focusing on computer graphics research, specifically in real-time global illumination and ray tracing. Following this, Stefan held a postdoctoral research position at INRIA from October 2012 to June 2014 and then worked at Google as a Staff Software Engineer from September 2014 to May 2024. After a brief tenure at Google DeepMind from May 2024 to May 2025 as a Staff Software Engineer, Stefan currently serves as a Staff AI Research Scientist at Meta since May 2025.
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