Justin
Baird
Selected Work
Featured Projects
Synthaesthetic Portrait Robot
A multimodal generative AI system for robotic painting that converts portraits into physical artworks using vision-language models, diffusion generation, and robotic path execution. Featured installation at SuperAI 2025.
Neuroflix: AI-Powered Video Learning Platform
A generative AI platform converting enterprise knowledge into dynamic video learning experiences. Winner of the Google Gemini Hackathon Singapore.
Codex Pianist: LLM-Assisted Robotic Piano System
A robotic pianist controlling an Inspire robotic hand mounted on a UF850 robot arm, built using LLM-assisted engineering workflows. Top 5 Finalist at the OpenAI Codex Hackathon.
Research
Selected Publications
Synthaesthetic Art: Human-Machine Creative Collaboration
NeurIPS Workshop
Redefining Artistic Boundaries: A Real-Time Interactive Painting Robot for Musicians
NeurIPS Workshop
ViolinBrush: Real-Time Music-to-Painting Robot
ACM Human-AI Interaction (HAI)
Writing
Recent Essays
From Google Street View to Robotic Painters: Lessons in Platform Thinking
How two decades of building platforms — from launching YouTube across Asia Pacific to architecting AI pipelines — taught me that the best systems disappear into the work they enable.
The Case for Cross-Modal AI: Why Synthaesthetic Systems Matter
Most AI systems operate within a single modality. The most interesting frontier is where modalities collide — translating sound to image, gesture to painting, language to physical action.
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