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Biography

Dr. Peter Belhumeur was a Co-Founder of Kriegman-Belhumeur Vision Technologies. Peter N. Belhumeur is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University and the Director of the Laboratory for the Study of Visual Appearance. He received a Sc.B. in Information Sciences from Brown University in 1985. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University under the direction of David Mumford in 1993. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge's Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in 1994. He was made Assistant, Associate and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Yale University in 1994, 1998, and 2001, respectively. He joined Columbia University as a Professor of Computer Science in 2002. His research focus lies somewhere in the mix of computer vision, face recognition, and applications of machine learning to visual recognition. His papers have more than 21,000 citations to date. His work has been featured numerous times in the New York Times, on National Public Radio, and the Associated Press. He is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and the National Science Foundation Career Award. He won the Siemens Best Paper Award at the 1996 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, the Olympus Prize at the 1998 European Conference of Computer Vision, and the Everingham Prize at 2012 British Machine Vision Conference. In October 2011, he received the Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Pioneer Award, given to individuals who have significantly contributed to the preservation of biodiversity on Earth. Finally, he is a creator of the iOS apps Leafsnap and Birdsnap, apps that lets users (more than one million to date) identify tree and bird species from images.

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Education
University of Cambridge, Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard University, Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy)
Brown University, BS (Bachelor of Science)
Gender
Male

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