Serge Belongie

Serge Belongie
Belongie in Copenhagen, 2022
Born	c. 1980 (age c. 44)
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley (PhD)

Serge Belongie (born c. 1980) is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, where he also serves as the head of the Danish Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence. Previously, he was the Andrew H. and Ann R. Tisch Professor of Computer Science at Cornell Tech, where he also served as Associate Dean. He has also been a member of the Visiting Faculty program at Google. He is known for his contributions to the fields of computer vision and machine learning, specifically object recognition and image segmentation, with his scientific research in these areas cited over 150,000 times according to Google Scholar. Along with Jitendra Malik, Belongie proposed the concept of shape context, a widely used feature descriptor in object recognition. He has co-founded several startups in the areas of computer vision and object recognition.^[1]

Belongie also serves as a board member of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), a renowned organization dedicated to fostering research excellence and collaboration in the realm of artificial intelligence across Europe.