Alexei A. Efros

Alexei "Alyosha" A. Efros[1] is a Russian-American computer scientist and professor at University of California, Berkeley. He is widely recognized for his contributions to computer vision and his work has been referenced in media outlets including Wired, BBC News, The New York Times, and the New Yorker.[2][3][4][5]

Not to be confused with the physicist Alexei L. Efros.
Alexei A. Efros
Born (1975-04-09) April 9, 1975
St. Petersburg, USSR
CitizenshipRussian, American
Alma materUniversity of Utah
UC Berkeley
RelativesAlexei Efros (father)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
Carnegie Mellon University
UC Berkeley
ThesisData-driven Approaches for Texture and Motion (2003)
Doctoral advisorJitendra Malik

Biography

Efros was born in St. Petersburg, USSR. 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, advised by Jitendra Malik, graduating in 2003. He then spent a year as a research fellow at the University of Oxford to work with Andrew Zisserman. He joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, where he remained until 2013 when he joined the faculty at UC Berkeley. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008.[7] He received the 2016 ACM Prize in Computing.[8]

References
  1. "Alexei vs. Alyosha". Department of EECS. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  2. Ward, Mark (8 August 2007). "Photo tool could fix bad images". BBC News. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
  3. 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.
  4. Bhanoo, Sindya N. (11 August 2014). "3-D Tool Guesses What a Photo Is Missing". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
  5. Twilley, Nicola (22 August 2014). "Out of Many, One: The Science of Composite Photography". The New Yorker. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
  6. Togyer, Jason (21 August 2011). "In the Loop: Alexei Efros". www.scs.cmu.edu. Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
  7. "Alexei A. Efros". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
  8. Ormond, Jim (19 April 2017). "Alexei Efros receives 2016 ACM Prize in Computing". ACM. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
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