Elman Mansimov (b. 1996, Azerbaijan) is an American artist who studied Computer Science at the University of Toronto in 2011 at the age of 15. He led a team of developers who created the alignDRAW model in 2015. At that time neural networks had mastered the art of labelling objects and formulating them into natural language descriptions or ‘captions’. alignDRAW’s innovation was to flip the process and turn text into image, a much more complex challenge. The artwork from alignDRAW was first published in the academic paper, Generating Images from Captions with Attention.