Pietro Perona | |
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Born | [1] | 3 September 1961
Nationality | Italian, American |
Alma mater | University of Padua University of California, Berkeley (1990, PhD) |
Known for | Computer vision Machine learning Cognitive neuroscience |
Awards | Longuet-Higgins Prize (2013), Koenderink Prize (2010) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer Science |
Institutions | California Institute of Technology |
Doctoral advisor | Jitendra Malik |
Doctoral students | Fei-Fei Li Rob Fergus Stefano Soatto Domitilla Del Vecchio |
Website | www |
Pietro Perona (born 3 September 1961) is an Italian-American educator and computer scientist. He is the Allan E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology and director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center in Neuromorphic Systems Engineering. He is known for his research in computer vision and is the director of the Caltech Computational Vision Group.[2]