Yasutaka Furukawa
Scholar

Yasutaka Furukawa

Google Scholar ID: wCxzFrMAAAAJ
Associate Professor of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University
Computer VisionComputer Graphics
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
8,793
 
H-index
38
 
i10-index
64
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
19
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - PAMI Longuet-Higgins Prize (2020)
  • - CS-CAN: Outstanding Young CS Researcher Award (2018)
  • - NSF CAREER Award (2015)
  • - Best Student Paper Award at ECCV 2012
  • - Google Faculty Research Awards (2018, 2017, 2016)
  • - Projects: CLiFT, PuzzleFusion++, Rig3R, BrepGen, MapTracker, etc.
Research Experience
  • - Principal Scientist at Wayve
  • - Associate Professor of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University
  • - Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis
  • - Software Engineer at Google
  • - Post-doctoral research associate at the University of Washington
Education
  • - Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, supervised by Prof. Ponce (Graduated in May 2008)
  • - Post-doctoral research associate at the University of Washington, working with Prof. Seitz and Prof. Curless
  • - Worked with Rick Szeliski at Facebook (previously at Microsoft Research)
Background
  • Principal Scientist at Wayve and Associate Professor of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. Research interests include embodied AI and autonomous driving.
Miscellany
  • Member of SFU Visual Computing Groups, ranked 12th in the world in Computer Vision and Graphics as of 2022.01.