Elman Mansimov is a scientist renowned as the lead developer of alignDRAW, which is celebrated as the first text-to-image generation model. Introduced in the 2015 paper “Generating Images from Captions with Attention,” alignDRAW innovatively reversed traditional image labeling systems to generate images from textual descriptions. Mansimov began his academic journey at 15, studying Computer Science at the University of Toronto, and later earned his Ph.D. at NYU, where he focused on iterative refinement for structured prediction in areas like machine translation and molecule generation.