Ruben Gres

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I'm currently co-founder of Misaligned Games, an indie game studio using AI for emergent gameplay. In addition to my primary role, I frequently embark on other adventures, whether it's art residencies, AI exploration, or volunteer work!

Me
Experience

Misaligned Games - Co-founder08/2025 - now

Co-founded an indie game studio using AI for emergent gameplay in games built with Godot and Unity.

LatentMinds - Co-founder2023 - now

Co-founded an experimental AI creativity lab developing tools that push the boundaries of generative AI for artists and researchers.

Freelance - Art Technical Consultant01/2024 - now

Working as a freelance consultant with established new media artists through the S+T+ARTS EU residency program and beyond. Providing expertise in AI implementation, fullstack development, and data visualization for artistic contexts. Work exhibited at Rotterdam's Nieuw Instituut and Belgrade's Palace of Science.

IGN - AI Engineer & MLOps02/2023 - 08/2025

Implementing AI into our Earth observation workflows. Using generative AI for change detections, particulary interested in diffusion models but also LLMs. Docker and Kubernetes to move apps to the Cloud.

CS Group - AI engineer 01/2022 - 02/2023

Worked on NLP models to extract topics and sentiment from user generated text.
Founded the NLP team to work on transformer models for textual analysis.

Teaching

ENSG - Guest Lecturer2024 - 2025

Graduate-level lectures (M2) at École nationale des sciences géographiques.
A DeepDive in Large Language Models — architectures, benchmarking, agentic frameworks (6h, 2025)
Introduction à l'IA générative pour la géomatique — generative AI applications in geomatics (3h, 2024)

Publications

Academic

Acknowledged contributor — Semantic Change Detection in Earth Observation with Hybrid Data Generation, CVPR 2025. Contributed the original idea and provided technical feedback during early development.

Articles

Deepfake : où en sommes-nous à l'ère de l'IA générative ? — MISC n°138 (front page)

Techniques des injections de prompt — MISC n°134 (top 10 articles of 2024)

Featured in ATLAS IGN 2024 for work on Seg2Sat and generative AI for geographic data.

Education

INSA Toulouse2018 - 2021

Engineer's degree, major in Computer science

IUT 'A' Paul Sabatier2016 - 2018

Diploma of Higher Qualification

Skills

Technical skills

Python, C#, Javascript, SQL, NodeJS, React, Godot, Unity
Diffusion models, LLMs, RAG, ControlNet, Docker, Kubernetes

Languages

Native French speaker, fluent in English and Catalan.
Good understanding of Spanish.

Geeky interests

Programming

I'm always working on personal projects and I take part in multiple programming events throughout the year.

3D Modeling

I do 3D modeling and animation on Blender

Game Dev

I enjoy creating small experiences by myself or within a team. 1st place at the 2023 HuggingFace Game JAM with SnipIt. Play my games on itch.io.