Pietro Perona
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Pietro Perona
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About Me

Socio dal 2025


 


Studi


Post-Doctoral Fellow (1990-91) Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (1990), U.C. Berkeley.


Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica (1985), Università di Padova, Italy.


 


Incarichi


Amazon Fellow (Sept. 2017-), Amazon Web Services.


Trustee (2016-) Austrian Institute of Science and Technology (IST Austria).


Executive Officer, Computation and Neural Systems Program (2006-2017) Caltech.


Director, NSF Engineering Research Center (2000-2006) Caltech. Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering (2008-), Caltech. Professor of Electrical Engineering (1996-2008), Caltech.


Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering (1991-1996), Caltech.


 


Premi ed Onorificienze


Koenderink Prize (2024) - For fundamental contributions to Computer Vision.


PAMI Mark Everingham Prize (2023). IEEE.


PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award (2021). IEEE.


Best Student Paper Award - IEEE CVPR (2021) Senior Author. Student Jen Sun.


IEEE Fellow (2020) Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers.


Helava Award (2018) - International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Commander, order of The Star of Italy (2017) By President of the Republic of Italy. Longuet-Higgins Prize (2013) - For fundamental contributions in Computer Vision.


Koenderink Prize (2010) - For fundamental contributions to Computer Vision.


Outstanding Paper Award (2010) - NeurIPS (honorable mention).


Best Paper Award (2008) IEEE 2nd Workshop on Online Learning for Classification. Best Paper Award (2003), IEEE Int’l Conf. of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Feynman Award (1995), California Institute of Technology.


 


Industria - Co-Fondatore


BioVision, Venice (purchased by Microtec in 2000), Digital Persona, Redwood City (purchased by Crossmatch in 2014), Anchovi Labs, Pasadena (purchased by Dropbox in 2012).


 


Servizio


Scientific Advisory Board: MIT NSF Center on Brain Minds and Machines (2014-23). Canadian Inst. for Adv. Research (CIFAR) (2011-19). Digital Persona (1996-2005). Ooyala (2007-08), Evolution Robotics (2003-09). Dropbox (2012-15). CovisionLab (2020–). Pro- gram Chair: ECCV 2012, Florence. General Chair: IEEE CVPR 2003, Madison.


 


Lezioni recenti


Ellis Summer School on Large Scale AI, University of Modena, 2023


AI Excellence Lectures, International AI Doctoral Academy, Europe (AIDA), 2021 Keynote, 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Milan (ICPR 2020)


 


Keynote, 8th AAAI Conf. on Human Comput. and Crowdsourcing, Amsterdam (HCOMP 2020)


 


Alunni


Fei-Fei Li (Professor, Stanford University). Silvio Savarese (Executive Vice President and Chief Sci- entist, Salesforce; Professor, Stanford University). Sara Beery (Assistant Professor, MIT). Domitilla del Vecchio (Professor, MIT). Stefano Soatto (Vice President, Amazon; Professor, UCLA).Serge Belongie (Professor, University of Copenhagen, and Cornell Tech). Rob Fergus (Professor, New York University; Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind). Ann Kennedy (Associate Professor, Scripps), Jennifer Sun (Assistant Professor, Cornell University). Max Welling (Professor, Univer- sity of Amsterdam). Lihi Zelnik (Professor and Vice-President for Technology Transfer, Technion, Israel). Kristin Branson (Head of Computation and Theory, Janelia Farms). Peter Welinder (VP for products, OpenAI).