VISION - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Associate Research Scientist, 2017 - 2019, Now Scientist at Swiss Data Science Center )
Job Titles:
- Associate Research Scientist, 2015 - Present )
Benjamin Haeffele (Associate Research Scientist, 2015-present): optimization and generalization theory for deep learning, cell reconstruction, detection, classification and tracking
Shahin Sefati (postdoc 2015, now Senior Researcher at Comcast): dynamic sparse coding and dictionary learning
Benjamin Haeffele (PhD BME 2015, then Associate Research Scientist at JHU): structured matrix factorization and globally optimal deep learning
Bijan Afsari (postdoc 2010-2014, then Research Scientist 2014-2016): averaging on Riemannian manifolds, metrics on dynamical systems, activity recognition
Dheeraj Singaraju (PhD ECE 2010, then postdoc at UC Berkeley, now Software Engineer at Google): discrete optimization, object recognition and segmentation, image matting and segmentation, 2D motion segmentation
Job Titles:
- Associate Research Scientist, 2017 - 2018 )
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- Postdoctoral Researcher, 2019 - Present )
Paris Giampouras (Postdoctoral Researcher, 2019-present): matrix factorization, adversarial robustness
Job Titles:
- Director, Center for Innovation in Data Engineering and Science
René Vidal is the Rachleff and Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) University Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering & Radiology and the Director of the Center for Innovation in Data Engineering and Science (IDEAS) at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the director of THEORINET, an NSF-Simons Collaboration on the Mathematical Foundations of Deep Learning, an Amazon Scholar and an Affiliated Chief Scientist at NORCE. His current research focuses on the foundations of deep learning and trustworthy AI and its applications in computer vision and biomedical data science. Dr. Vidal is an ACM Fellow, AIMBE Fellow, IEEE Fellow, IAPR Fellow and Sloan Fellow, and has received numerous awards for his work, including the IEEE Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, D'Alembert Faculty Award, J.K. Aggarwal Prize, ONR Young Investigator Award, NSF CAREER Award as well as best paper awards in machine learning, computer vision, controls, and medical robotics.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Research Scientist, 2021 - Present )
Stewart Slocum (Assistant Research Scientist, 2021-present): optimization theory for deep learning, semantic information pursuit