Sanja Fidler

Faculty Member

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

Canada CIFAR Artificial Intelligence Chair

Sanja Fidler is an Associate Professor at University of Toronto, affiliated faculty at the Vector Institute (and was one of the co-founding members) and VP of AI Research at NVIDIA, leading a research lab in Toronto. Prior coming to Toronto, in 2012/2013, she was a Research Assistant Professor at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, an academic institute located in the campus of University of Chicago.

Research Interests

Sanja’s main research interests are in Computer Vision and Machine Learning. She is also interested in the interplay between language and vision.

  • Intersection Computer Vision & Graphics
  • 3D Vision
  • 3D Reconstruction & Synthesis
  • Interactive Methods for Image Annotation

Highlights

  • Innovation Award (University of Toronto), 2021
  • Connaught Innovation Award, 2020
  • Early Researcher Award, 2019
  • Best paper honorable mention at CVPR’17
  • Connaught New Researcher Award, 2018
  • Amazon Academic Research Award, 2017
  • NVIDIA Pioneer of AI Award, 2016
  • Facebook Faculty Award, 2016
  • Outstanding reviewer award at ECCV’08, ECCV’12, CVPR’12, CVPR’15
  • Professor of the Year, 2014/2015, awarded by the UofT’s Computer Science Student Union
  • Best Teaching Assistant, 2007, awarded by University of Ljubljana’s Computer Science Student Union

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