Alexei A. Efros
Alexei A. Efros | |
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| Born | April 9, 1975 |
| Citizenship | Russian, American |
| Alma mater | University of Utah University of California, Berkeley |
| Relatives | Alexei Efros (father) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | University of Oxford Carnegie Mellon University University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Data-driven Approaches for Texture and Motion (2003) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jitendra Malik |
Alexei "Alyosha" A. Efros[1] (born 9 April 1975) is a Russian-American computer scientist and professor at University of California, Berkeley. He has contributed to the field of computer vision, and his work has been referenced in Wired, BBC News, The New York Times, and The New Yorker.[2][3][4][5]
Early life and education
[edit]Efros was born in St. Petersburg in the Soviet Union. His father is Alexei L. Efros, then a physics professor at the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute. His family emigrated to the United States when he was 14 to accommodate his father's career and the family settled in Salt Lake City in 1991.[6]
He graduated from the University of Utah in 1997, and attended University of California, Berkeley for his PhD, where he was advised by Jitendra Malik and graduated in 2003. He then spent a year as a research fellow at the University of Oxford, where he worked with Andrew Zisserman.
Career
[edit]Efros joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he remained until 2013 when he joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008.[7] He received the 2016 ACM Prize in Computing.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Alexei vs. Alyosha". Department of EECS. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
- ^ Ward, Mark (8 August 2007). "Photo tool could fix bad images". BBC News. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
- ^ Geere, Duncan (8 August 2012). "The software that can identify cities from their architecture". Wired. Archived from the original on 22 March 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
- ^ Bhanoo, Sindya N. (11 August 2014). "3-D Tool Guesses What a Photo Is Missing". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
- ^ Twilley, Nicola (22 August 2014). "Out of Many, One: The Science of Composite Photography". The New Yorker. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
- ^ Togyer, Jason (21 August 2011). "In the Loop: Alexei Efros". www.scs.cmu.edu. Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
- ^ "Alexei A. Efros". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
- ^ Ormond, Jim (19 April 2017). "Alexei Efros receives 2016 ACM Prize in Computing". ACM. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
- 1975 births
- Living people
- American computer scientists
- Carnegie Mellon University faculty
- Computer vision researchers
- Machine learning researchers
- Recipients of the ACM Prize in Computing
- Russian emigrants to the United States
- UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- University of Utah alumni