Jitendra Malik
Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley; VP and Distinguished Scientist at Amazon's FAR lab
- Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS, University of California, Berkeley12
- VP and Distinguished Scientist, Amazon FAR lab (partial industrial leave from Berkeley), Amazon2
Jitendra Malik is the Arthur J. Chick Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley, where Malik joined the faculty in 1986, and is currently on partial industrial leave as VP and Distinguished Scientist at the Amazon FAR lab. Malik's research group works on computer vision, robotics, and machine learning, and Malik's biography names normalized cuts, shape contexts, and R-CNN among the concepts and algorithms that came from this research. Malik is a co-author of the 2013 R-CNN paper and of SlowFast Networks for video recognition. Malik's homepage lists recent teaching of CS 280 Computer Vision (Spring 2025) and CS 294-277 Robots That Learn (Spring 2026).1234
Work
R-CNN (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author, with Ross Girshick, Jeff Donahue, and Trevor Darrell, of "Rich feature hierarchies for accurate object detection and semantic segmentation" (2013), the R-CNN paper.32
SlowFast Networks (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author of "SlowFast Networks for Video Recognition" (2018) with Christoph Feichtenhofer, Haoqi Fan, and Kaiming He.4
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