Scholar
Raquel Urtasun
Google Scholar ID: jyxO2akAAAAJ
Founder & CEO Waabi, Professor, University of Toronto.
Citations & Impact
Citations
71,261
H-index
102
i10-index
282
Publications
20
Co-authors
91
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Recipient of NSERC EWR Steacie Award
- - NVIDIA Pioneers of AI Award
- - Ministry of Education and Innovation Early Researcher Award
- - Three Google Faculty Research Awards
- - Amazon Faculty Research Award
- - Two NVIDIA Pioneer Research Awards
- - Connaught New Researcher Award
- - Fallona Family Research Award
- - Best Paper Runner up Prize awarded at CVPR in 2013 and 2017 respectively
- - Named Chatelaine 2018 Woman of the year
- - 2018 Toronto's top influencers by Adweek magazine
- - Multiple papers accepted at international conferences such as CORL, ICCV, IROS, CVPR, ICRA, ICLR, NeurIPS, ECCV, etc.
Research Experience
- - Chief Scientist and Head of R&D at Uber ATG from 2017 to 2021
- - Canada Research Chair in Machine Learning and Computer Vision from 2015 to 2017
- - Assistant Professor at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC)
- - Visiting professor at ETH Zurich during the spring semester of 2010
- - Currently a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto
- - Founder and CEO of Waabi
- - Co-founder of the Vector Institute for AI
Education
- - Bachelor's degree from Universidad Publica de Navarra in 2000
- - Ph.D. from the Computer Science department at Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2006
- - Postdoc at MIT and UC Berkeley
Background
- Research interests include machine learning, computer vision, robotics, AI, and remote sensing. She is a world leading expert in AI for self-driving cars.
Miscellany
- Personal interests include sports analytics, has taught related courses at the University of Toronto
