Pietro Perona

Pietro Perona (born 3 September 1961) is an Italian-American educator and computer scientist. He is the Allan E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology and director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center in Neuromorphic Systems Engineering. He is known for his research in computer vision and is the director of the Caltech Computational Vision Group.

Pietro Perona
2014 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Born (1961-09-03) 3 September 1961
NationalityItalian, American
Alma materUniversity of Padua
University of California, Berkeley (1990, PhD)
Known forComputer vision
Machine learning
Cognitive neuroscience
AwardsLonguet-Higgins Prize (2013), Koenderink Prize (2010)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsCalifornia Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorJitendra Malik
Doctoral studentsFei-Fei Li
Jean-Yves Bouguet
Stefano Soatto
Websitewww.vision.caltech.edu/Perona.html
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