Efros, Guestrin, and Clarke Win Awards
This must be the year for awards. They just keep rolling in!
- Alyosha Efros has been awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship award. While most of the prestigious Guggenheim awards go to people with exceptional accomplishments in the creative arts, a few are given in the sciences. Alyosha’s groundbreaking work in image and video processing has always impressed us. With this award, he will be able to continue a collaboration with colleagues at a new vision lab in Ecole Normale Superieure.
- Carlos Guestrin has been selected for an ONR Young Investigator award. Carlos, despite being “young”, is widely considered one of the leading lights in a range of cutting-edge research areas, spanning machine learning to sensor networks.
- Ed Clarke, the 2007 ACM Turing Award winner, has also received the 2008 Herbrand Award for Distinguished Contributions to Automated Reasoning. In a year where the computing field’s top award goes to a person in the area of automated reasoning, it only stands to reason that Ed would also win the Herbrand Award.
Congratulations to Alyosha, Carlos, and Ed!
Peter Lee @ April 24, 2008
[…] The Okawa grant program focuses primarily on up-and-coming researchers who are conducting basic, long-term research. Here at CMU, even though they haven’t been here all that long yet, many of us are already in awe of Alexei and Ryan. Just this past year, Alexei and his student, James Hays, developed one of the most interesting demonstrations of large-scale image mining, IMG2GPS. This system compares an image against a large database of images in order to estimate its geolocation. You can check out the latest sample results here. Last year, you may recall that Alexei was also honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship. […]