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Bernard Ghanem is currently a Professor (Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering) and Director of the AI Center of Excellence at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). His research interests lie in computer vision and machine learning with emphasis on topics in video understanding, 3D recognition, and theoretical foundations of deep learning.
He received his bachelor’s degree from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in 2005 and his MS/PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2010. His work has received several awards and honors, including several Best Paper Awards for workshops in CVPR, ECCV, and ICCV, a Abdul Hameed Shoman Arab Researchers Award for Big Data and Machine Learning in 2020, and two Google Faculty Research Awards in 2015 (1st in MENA for Machine Perception) and in 2024.
He co-authored more than 250 papers in his field. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) and has served as Area Chair (AC) for the main computer vision and machine learning conferences including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, and AAAI. He will serve as Program Chair (PC) of ICCV 2029. He serves as co-founder and chief advisor to several AI startups.
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