Best Paper Awards: ICCV 2017, CVPR 2016, CVPR 2009
Best Student Paper Award, ICCV 2017
Best Paper Honorable Mentions: CVPR 2021, ECCV 2018
Everingham Prize, ICCV 2021
Seminal contributions: ResNets, Faster R-CNN, Mask R-CNN, MoCo, MAE
Publications in NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, etc., including Oral presentations
Background
Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of EECS at MIT
Distinguished Scientist (part-time) at Google DeepMind
Research areas: computer vision and deep learning
Best known for Deep Residual Networks (ResNets), the most-cited paper of the 21st century
Residual connections are foundational in modern deep learning models, including Transformers (e.g., ChatGPT), AlphaGo Zero, AlphaFold, and generative AI
Also known for visual perception (e.g., Faster R-CNN, Mask R-CNN) and self-supervised learning (e.g., MoCo, MAE)