Greg Shakhnarovich

Professor Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago 6045 S. Kenwood Ave. Chicago, IL 60637 e-mail gregory at ttic dot edu tel +1 (773) 834-2572 fax +1 (773) 834-9881

Brief bio:

I am a Professor at Toyota Technological Institute ad Chicago (TTIC), a philanthropically endowed academic computer science institute located on the University of Chicago campus.
I also hold a part-time faculty appointment at the University of Chicago Department of Computer Science.
I lead the Perception And Learning Systems (PALS) group.
Prior to coming to TTIC, I was a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Computer Science of Brown University, working with Michael Black. I received my PhD degree at MIT where I worked at CSAIL with Trevor Darrell. I obtained my MSc degree at the Computer Science Department of the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, and my undergraduate degree in Math and CS from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.

My CV: PDF

Research interests:

• Image understanding,including standard tasks like object detection and panoptic segmentation, and novel definitions of scene parsing and understanding
• Perception of 3D world from images and videos
• Vision and language, in particular purposeful/informative image descriptions and using language as input to recognition tasks (e.g., "open vocabulary detection"
• Synthesis and perception of non-photorealistic imagery; image synthesis and stylization, and lifting 2D imagery to 3D
• Automatic processing and recognition of sign language
• Machine learning: example-base methods, un-, self- and semi-supervised learning of representations

Publications

Current student collaborators

• Xiaodan Du (TTIC, PhD)
• Jiahao Li (TTIC, PhD)
• Haochen Wang (TTIC, PhD)
• Marceo Sandoval-Castañeda (TTIC, PhD)

Former students

• Igor Vasiljevic (TTIC, PhD) → Research Scientist, Toyota Research Institute
• Steven Basart (U. of Chicago, PhD) → Research Engineer, SpaceX
• Nick Kolkin (TTIC, PhD) → Research Engineer, Adobe Research
• Ruotian Luo (TTIC, PhD)→ Software Engineer, Waymo
• Reza Mostajabi (TTIC PhD) → Research Engineer at Zendar, Inc.
• Payman Yadollahpour (TTIC PhD) → Postdoc at UPItt/MIT CSAIL
• Shubhendu Trivedi (TTIC PhD) → Institute Fellow, ICERM/Brown University, and Research Affiliate, MIT CSAIL
• Gustav Larsson (PhD, U. of Chicago) → Research Engineer at Apple, Inc.

Theses

PhD thesis, MIT, 2006: Learning Task-Specific Similarity. Advisor: Trevor Darrell.

MsC thesis, Technion, 2001: Statistical Data Cloning for Machine Learning. Advisors: Ran El-Yaniv and Yoram Baram.

Teaching