Philip Cederman
My work with AI started in a photo studio.
I spent years working with images, film and the technology behind them. Along the way, I led teams, built workflows and became increasingly interested in the parts of production that people only notice when they stop working.
Today, I’m co-founder and COO at Aphygo, where we research AI systems that can remember, adapt and act over time. I work across research, product development and operations, helping us turn ideas into things we can build, test and use.

Selected work
A selection of commercial and personal work across photography, retouching, film and generative AI.
These projects are part of how I learned to look, make decisions and work with other people’s ideas. I still draw on that experience every day.

At Aphygo
Working with generative AI made me pay closer attention to what happens between individual outputs. A character has to remain recognizable across scenes. A team needs to preserve decisions. An agent needs to carry useful experience into the next interaction.
At Aphygo, we research the architectures behind that continuity. My role involves connecting the research with product decisions, organizing the work and explaining what we’re learning.

Writing
I write about AI, creative work and the people living with the things we build. Sometimes that takes me into memory research. Sometimes it takes me back to music.

Get in touch
For conversations about research, teaching, creative work or speaking.