The Skylab Story
Skylab was founded in 2018 by TJ Rak, a photographer with 15 years of industry experience, and Alireza Shafaei, a machine learning PhD. Together they are building the picture perfect team to bring the future of portrait editing to the world, from Vancouver, Canada.
Paul Lam
Chief Product Officer
Dave Fong
Chief Financial Officer
Machine Learning Engineer
Kevin Le
Software Developer
Ray Chan
Photography Lead
Olivia Barbieri
Customer Success Manager
Mohammad Nourbakhsh
Mike Yagudaev
Mobile Developer
Alinstein Jose
Machine Learning Engineer
Hardik Uppal
Machine Learning Engineer
Our commitment to R&D
At Skylab we are committed to advancing research in computational photography and computer vision.
We have released the first large-scale, professionally retouched dataset of human faces to encourage further work by others. Explore this and our first academic publication to gain more insight into how Skylab is revolutionizing the world of photo editing.