Jana Kosecka, PhD

Jana Kosecka, PhD

Professor

School of Computing

Other Positions:

Associate Chair for Research

Research Theme:

Digital Technologies - Inventing new algorithms, digital techniques, and technologies

Key Interests:

Computer Vision, Image Understanding, Robotics, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Technologies, AI

Education:

PhD, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Kosecka obtained Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Pennsylvania. Following her PhD, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the EECS Department at University of California, Berkeley. She is the recipient of David Marr’s prize and received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Jana is a co-Editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, former chair of IEEE technical Committee of Robot Perception, Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and International Journal of Computer Vision. She held visiting positions at Stanford University, Google and Nokia Research. She is a co-author of a monograph titled Invitation to 3D vision: From Images to Geometric Models. Her general research interests are in Computer Vision and Robotics. In particular she is interested ‘seeing’ systems engaged in autonomous tasks, acquisition of static and dynamic models of environments by means of visual sensing and human-computer interaction.

College:

School of Computing