Jitendra Malik is the Arthur J. Chick Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. He is also on the faculty of the Department of Bioengineering and is a member of the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Cognitive Science and Vision Science groups. Malik's research group has worked on many topics in computer vision, human visual perception, robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, generating several well-known concepts and algorithms. Over his 37 years at UC Berkeley, he has mentored more than 70 Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows. His honors include the 2013 IEEE PAMI-TC Distinguished Researcher in Computer Vision Award, the 2014 K.S. Fu Prize from the International Association of Pattern Recognition, the 2016 ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award, the 2018 IJCAI Award for Research Excellence in AI, and the 2019 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award. Malik is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This event is presented by the Martin Meyerson Faculty Research Lectures.
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