Scholar
James M. Rehg
Google Scholar ID: 8kA3eDwAAAAJ
Founder Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Citations & Impact
Citations
17,147
H-index
61
i10-index
193
Publications
20
Co-authors
45
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of NSF CAREER Award (2001) and Raytheon Faculty Fellowship from Georgia Tech (2005).
- Supervised students to win best student paper awards at ICML 2005, BMVC 2010, Mobihealth 2014, Face and Gesture 2015.
- Received Distinguished Paper Award from ACM IMWUT and Method of the Year from Nature Methods.
- General co-Chair for CVPR 2009 and Program co-Chair for CVPR 2017.
- Authored over 200 peer-reviewed papers and holds 26 issued US patents.
- Led a $5.9M NIH-funded mDOT Center for mobile health research (2020).
- Multiple PhD students (e.g., Fiona Ryan, Max Xu) awarded NSF Graduate Fellowships.
Background
- Founder Professor of Computer Science and Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
- Conducts foundational research in computer vision and machine learning with applications in human-centered and interdisciplinary domains.
- Central research theme: understanding human social and cognitive behavior through novel sensing technologies and computational models that link health behaviors to clinical outcomes.
- Explores machine learning paradigms inspired by child development and biologically-inspired methods for robot perception, navigation, and control.
- Recent work includes multimodal foundation models, social AI, and large-scale video datasets such as Ego4D.
