Prof. Jitendra Malik
Arthur J. Chick Professor Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley and Director of Research at Facebook AI Research in Menlo Park
Prof. Jitendra Malik received his B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1980, the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1985, and joined UC Berkeley as a faculty member in 1986, where he has also served as Department Chair. Prof. Malik's research interests include computer vision, machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics and computer graphics. He has been elected to the US National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Prof. Malik received the 2016 Allen Newell award from ACM and AAAI, the 2018 IJCAI Award for Research Excellence in AI, and in 2019 the IEEE Computer Society’s Computer Pioneer Award for his "leading role in developing Computer Vision into a thriving discipline through pioneering research, leadership, and mentorship".