Yulia Gryaditskaya

Yulia Gryaditskaya is a Senior Research Scientist at Adobe, UK. Her research interests include improving user control in Generative AI, advancing its technical foundations, and exploring how design principles and human visual perception can be integrated into AI-driven creative tools.

Prior to that, she was an Assistant Professor (2022–2024) at the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) and the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI. She initially joined CVSSP as a Senior Research Fellow (2020–2022) on a research-only track. During her time at Surrey, she supervised and co-supervised PhD students in areas such as sketch-based 3D shape modeling and retrieval, sketch understanding, and sketch generation.

Before joining CVSSP, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher (2017–2020) at Inria, working in the GraphDeco group under the supervision of Dr. Adrien Bousseau. Her research focused on concept sketching techniques, sketch understanding, and sketch-based modeling.

She earned her PhD in 2017 from MPI Informatics, Germany, under the guidance of Prof. Karol Myszkowski and Prof. Hans-Peter Seidel. Her PhD research focused on High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging, covering topics such as HDR calibration, HDR video capture on mobile devices, tone mapping, structured light fields, and material editing in such light fields.

During her PhD, she spent six months with the Color and HDR Group at Technicolor R&D, Rennes, France, under the mentorship of Dr. Erik Reinhard.

She holds a degree (2007–2012) in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science with a specialization in Operations Research and System Analysis from the Lomonosov Moscow State University.

More information can be found on her personal website.