People
People in computer vision
73 people in the USASI People directory whose profiles list computer vision as a field of their work. Listed alphabetically; this is not a ranking. Each profile covers public professional work only, cited to official pages.
Aditya Ramesh
VP of Research; leads Worldsim, OpenAI
VP of Research at OpenAI who leads Worldsim; first author of DALL·E and DALL·E 2, co-author of CLIP
Alex Nichol
Deep learning research, OpenAI
OpenAI researcher; first author of GLIDE, Improved DDPM, and Point-E; co-author of the HumanEval paper
Alexander Kirillov
Works on multimodal AI models, Thinking Machines Lab
First author of Segment Anything; works on multimodal models at Thinking Machines; formerly OpenAI and FAIR
Alexander Toshev
Listed with Apple on the RLTL;DR paper (September 2026), Apple
Apple machine learning researcher; co-author of DataComp-LM, MobileCLIP2, and recent agent-training work
Alexei A. Efros
Howard Friesen Professor, EECS Department; member of BAIR, University of California, Berkeley
Howard Friesen Professor in UC Berkeley EECS and member of BAIR; co-author of pix2pix and CycleGAN
Ali Farhadi
Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; co-director of the RAIVN Lab, University of Washington
University of Washington professor co-directing the RAIVN Lab; former Ai2 CEO who advised on OLMo
Amir Hertz
Research scientist, Google
Research scientist at Google; first author of Prompt-to-Prompt image editing with cross-attention control
Amnon Shashua
Co-founder, President and CEO, Mobileye
Co-founder, president and CEO of Mobileye; Sachs Chair in Computer Science at the Hebrew University
Andrea Vedaldi
Professor of Computer Vision and Machine Learning; co-lead of the Visual Geometry Group, University of Oxford
Oxford professor who co-leads the Visual Geometry Group; Amazon Scholar; co-author of DINOv3 and VGGT
Angjoo Kanazawa
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; leads the KAIR lab, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley EECS associate professor whose lab builds the open-source nerfstudio and gsplat libraries
Aravind Srinivas
Cofounder and CEO, Perplexity
Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity; first author of CURL and Bottleneck Transformers
Barret Zoph
VP of Research (Post-Training), OpenAI
First author of neural architecture search at Google Brain; earlier VP of Research (Post-Training) at OpenAI
Ben Mildenhall
Co-founder, working on graphics and 3D computer vision, World Labs
Co-founder of World Labs and first author of the NeRF paper on neural radiance fields for view synthesis
Bichen Wu
Listed with GenAI, Meta as first author of the Fairy paper (2023); FBNet work done while interning at Facebook, Meta
Computer vision researcher; first author of Meta's Fairy video-editing paper and of FBNet
Bilawal Sidhu
Technology curator and host, TED
Tech creator covering AI, AR/VR, and robotics; technology curator and host for TED
Bin Xiao
Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Superintelligence team, Microsoft
Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft; first author of Florence-2 and former lead of Florence models
Byron Boots
Professor; Amazon Professor of Machine Learning; director of the UW Robot Learning Laboratory, University of Washington
Amazon Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Washington; co-founder and CEO of Overland AI
Christoph Feichtenhofer
Director, Research Scientist, Meta Superintelligence Labs
Director and research scientist at Meta Superintelligence Labs; SAM 3 project lead and SlowFast first author
Christoph Lassner
Co-founder, World Labs
Co-founder of World Labs; author of the Pulsar sphere-based renderer used as a PyTorch3D backend
Christopher Clark
Senior research scientist, leading the open-ecosystem multimodal team, Allen Institute for AI
Senior research scientist at Ai2 leading the open multimodal team; co-first author of Molmo and Molmo2
Cordelia Schmid
Research Director, WILLOW project team, Inria
Inria research director in the WILLOW team, with a joint appointment at Google Research since 2018
David Forsyth
Fulton Watson Copp Chair in Computer Science, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Fulton Watson Copp Chair in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
David Luebke
Runs a research group in NVIDIA Research focused on computer graphics and neural image synthesis, NVIDIA
Helped found NVIDIA Research in 2006; runs a research group on computer graphics and neural image synthesis
Deepak Pathak
Co-founder and CEO, Skild AI
Co-founder and CEO of Skild AI; Raj Reddy Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University
Dieter Fox
Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; head of the RSE-Lab, University of Washington
UW Allen School professor who leads Ai2's Robotics team; started NVIDIA's robotics research lab in 2017
Fei-Fei Li
Co-founder/CEO, World Labs
Co-founder and CEO of World Labs, Stanford Sequoia Professor, and principal investigator of ImageNet
Francisco Massa
Facebook AI Research, as listed on GitHub profile, Meta
Emeritus TorchVision maintainer and co-author of Meta's DINOv3, DETR and Detectron2
Geoffrey Hinton
Emeritus distinguished professor, University of Toronto
2024 Nobel laureate in Physics; University of Toronto emeritus professor and former Google Vice President
Jitendra Malik
Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS, University of California, Berkeley
Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley; VP and Distinguished Scientist at Amazon's FAR lab
João Carreira
Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
Research scientist at Google DeepMind; co-creator of the Kinetics dataset and the Perception Test
Jonathan Ho
Listed with Google Research, Brain Team on Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance and as co-first author of Imagen Video (2022), Google Research, Brain Team
First author of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) and of Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance
Josef Sivic
Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence; head of the IMPACT group, Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC), Czech Technical University
Professor at CIIRC, Czech Technical University, and head of the IMPACT group; consults for Adobe Research
Joy Buolamwini
Founder and President, Algorithmic Justice League
Founder and President of the Algorithmic Justice League; author of Unmasking AI and a newsletter
Jun-Yan Zhu
Michael B. Donohue Associate Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University
CMU associate professor and Nunchux AI co-founder; first author of CycleGAN and co-author of pix2pix
Justin Johnson
Co-founder, World Labs
World Labs co-founder; first author of the perceptual-losses, CLEVR and DenseCap papers in computer vision
Jyoti Aneja
Member of Technical Staff, AI Frontiers team, Microsoft Research
Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft Research AI Frontiers; co-lead of Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B
Kaiming He
Associate Professor with tenure, Department of EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
First author of ResNet, Mask R-CNN and MAE; MIT associate professor and part-time scientist at Google DeepMind
Karén Simonyan
Chief Scientist, Microsoft AI (announced March 2024), Microsoft AI
First author of the VGG networks paper; joined Microsoft AI as Chief Scientist in 2024 from Inflection AI
Luke Melas-Kyriazi
Building Cursor, Anysphere
Building Cursor at Anysphere; former Meta visiting researcher working on 3D generation
Matt Deitke
AI researcher, leading a data pod, Meta
AI researcher at Meta; co-first author of Molmo and first author of ProcTHOR and Objaverse
Matthew Zeiler
Founder and CEO (as described in Nebius's May 2026 announcement), Clarifai
Clarifai founder named SVP, Research at Nebius in May 2026; author of the ADADELTA paper
Matthijs Douze
Research Scientist, Fundamental AI Research (FAIR), since November 2015, Meta
Research scientist at Meta FAIR; implemented most of the CPU side of the Faiss similarity search library
Michael J. Black
Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Meshcapade
Co-author of the SMPL-X body model; co-founder of Body Labs; named a Distinguished Amazon Scholar in 2017
Mido Assran
Scientist and Member of Technical Staff, founding team, Advanced Machine Intelligence
Scientist at Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI); first author of V-JEPA 2 and I-JEPA from Meta FAIR
Miika Aittala
Member of NVIDIA Research (joined November 2019), NVIDIA Research
Member of NVIDIA Research; co-author of the StyleGAN3, EDM, and EDM2 generative model papers
Ming-Yu Liu
Vice President of Cosmos Lab (Vice President of Research), NVIDIA
Vice President of Cosmos Lab at NVIDIA; supervised the Cosmos3 world model family
Nick Frosst
Co-founder, Cohere
Co-founder of Cohere; co-author with Geoffrey Hinton of capsule-network research at Google Brain
Nicolas Hug
ML engineer, working on PyTorch, Meta AI
Maintainer of PyTorch's TorchVision and TorchCodec libraries; ML engineer at Meta AI
Nikhila Ravi
Director; co-lead of the Segment Anything (SAM) team, Meta Superintelligence Labs
Director at Meta Superintelligence Labs who co-leads the Segment Anything team; first author of SAM 2
Niki Parmar
Listed with Google Research (2017) and Google Brain (2018) affiliations on papers, Google Research and Google Brain
Co-author of the Transformer paper and first-listed author of Image Transformer, both from Google
Pascal Vincent
Research Scientist, Fundamental AI Research (FAIR), Meta
Research scientist in Meta's FAIR team; first author of the stacked denoising autoencoders paper
Patrick Esser
Listed with Runway ML as an author of the Latent Diffusion Models paper (CVPR 2022), Runway ML
Co-first author of Taming Transformers (VQGAN) and co-author of Latent Diffusion Models
Phillip Isola
Associate Professor in EECS; member of CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT associate professor in EECS; first author of pix2pix and co-author of Foundations of Computer Vision
Piotr Dollár
Research Director, FAIR, Meta
Research director at Meta's FAIR; co-author of Segment Anything, COCO and Mask R-CNN; SAM 3 project lead
Richard Zhang
Principal Scientist, Adobe Research
Principal Scientist at Adobe Research; first author of the LPIPS perceptual metric and image colorization work
Ron Mokady
VP of Research, BRIA AI
VP of Research at BRIA AI; co-author of Prompt-to-Prompt and first author of Null-text Inversion
Ross Girshick
Research scientist, FAIR (2015–2023), Meta
First author of R-CNN and Detectron; co-author of Segment Anything; formerly at FAIR, Microsoft and Ai2
Saining Xie
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer (CSO), AMI Labs
Co-founder and CSO of AMI Labs and NYU assistant professor; co-creator of DiT and co-author of ConvNeXt
Samuli Laine
Member of NVIDIA Research since 2007, NVIDIA Research
Member of NVIDIA Research since 2007; first author of nvdiffrast and co-author of StyleGAN and EDM
Sanja Fidler
Associate Professor, University of Toronto
University of Toronto associate professor, Vector Institute co-founder and NVIDIA VP of AI Research
Sayak Paul
Senior Research Engineer, working on diffusion models (since March 2026), Hugging Face
Works on diffusion models at Hugging Face and is a listed author of the Diffusers library
Shusheng Yang
Ph.D. student at NYU Courant, advised by Prof. Saining Xie, New York University
NYU Courant PhD student; first author of Cambrian-S and co-first author of Thinking in Space and Qwen-VL
Stefano Soatto
Vice president and distinguished scientist, AWS Agentic AI, Amazon Web Services
Vice president and distinguished scientist in AWS Agentic AI; UCLA professor of computer science
Tero Karras
Senior Distinguished Research Scientist, NVIDIA Research
Senior Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research; primary author of the StyleGAN models
Tong He
Senior Applied Scientist (from 2018), Amazon Web Services
Co-author of the XGBoost R package; committer on DGL, GluonCV and Apache MXNet; former AWS applied scientist
Trevor Darrell
Faculty, CS and EE Divisions of EECS; founding co-director of BAIR, University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley professor who founded and co-leads BAIR; co-author of Caffe and R-CNN; President of Prompt AI
Tsung-Yi Lin
Principal research scientist, NVIDIA Research, NVIDIA
Principal research scientist at NVIDIA Research; led the creation of the COCO dataset; Cosmos co-author
Xiaodong He
Senior Vice President of JD Group (JD.COM), JD Group
Senior Vice President of JD Group; former head of Microsoft Research's Deep Learning Technology Center
Xinlei Chen
Contributes to OpenAI's multimodal work, OpenAI
Contributes to multimodal work at OpenAI; formerly at xAI and Meta FAIR; first author of SimSiam
Yangqing Jia
Founder and CEO, Intent Lab
Creator of Caffe, co-creator of ONNX and co-lead of PyTorch 1.0; founder and CEO of Intent Lab
Yann LeCun
Executive Chairman, Advanced Machine Intelligence
Executive Chairman of AMI Labs and NYU professor; former Chief AI Scientist at Meta and co-author of V-JEPA 2
Yuval Alaluf
Research Scientist, Runway
Research Scientist at Runway; first author of ReStyle and co-author of Attend-and-Excite
Yuxin Wu
Builds foundation models (Kimi), Moonshot AI
Creator of Detectron2; builds foundation models at Moonshot AI; formerly at Google Brain and FAIR
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