BIO

Silvio Savarese is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. After earning his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2005, he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2005 - 2008 as a Beckman Institute Fellow. He is recipient of a TWR Automotive Endowed Research Award in 2012, an NSF Career Award in 2011 and Google Research Award in 2010. In 2002 he was awarded the Walker von Brimer Award for outstanding research initiative. He served as workshops chair and area chair in CVPR 2010, and as area chair in ICCV 2011. He will be area chair in CVPR 2013.

Silvio Savarese has been active in promoting research in the field of object recognition and scene representation. He co-chaired and co-organized the 1st, 2nd and 3rd edition of the IEEE workshop on 3D Representation for Recognition (3dRR-07, 3dRR-09, 3dRR-11) in conjunction with the ICCV. He was editor of the Elsevier Journal in Computer Vision and Image Understanding, special issue on "3D Representation for Recognition" in 2009. He co-authored a book on 3D object and scene representation published by Morgan and Claypool in 2011. His work with his students has received several best paper awards including a best student paper award in the IEEE CORP workshop in conjunction with ICCV 2011 and the CETI Award at the 2010 FIATECH's Technology Conference. His research interests include computer vision, object recognition and scene understanding, shape representation and reconstruction, human activity recognition and visual psychophysics.

Silvio Savarese's research is sponsored by US government agencies such as NSF, ONR and Army as well as industrial partners such as KLA-Tencor, Ford, Toyota, TWR and Google. He is member and a principal investigator of the Giga Scale Research Center (GSRC).

Education
• 2005: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
• 2001: M.S. in Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena
• 1998: Laura Degree in Electrical Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Professional Appointments
• 2008-present:  Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI
•  2005–2008: Beckman Fellowship, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• TWR Automotive Endowed Research Award (2012)
• National Science Foundation Career Award (2011)
• Google Research Award (2010)
• Beckman Fellowship, awarded by the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2005–2008)
• Caltech Walker von-Brimer Foundation Award for outstanding research initiative (2002)

• NSF Career, PI, “Toward Discovering the 3D Geometrical and Semantic Structure of Objects and Scenes” (2011-2015)
• NSF, co-PI, “Automatic Behavior Monitoring for In-depth Analysis of Construction Fatalities and Injuries”, (2012-2015)
• NAVY (ONR), PI, Understanding Collective Activities from Videos, (2011-2013)
• TWR Automotive Endowed Research Award, PI, “3D scene understanding for save driving applications”, (2011-2012)
• KLA-Tencor Fellowship, PI, Automatic recovery of structure and semantics from images, (2011-2013)
• TOYOTA corporation, PI, “Multi-target tracking for autonomous navigation”, (2011-2013)
• MIT-Lincoln Lab, PI, “Funding to support computer vision course fall 2011”, (fall 2011)
• NSF EAGER, PI, Modeling and Recognizing Collective Activities, (2010-2011)
• Google Research Award, PI, Object Recognition for Mobile Applications, (2010-2011)
• Google donation for Mobile Vision course. PI, (2010)
• NSF CPS, co-PI (medium, collaborative) # CNS 0931474 - Learning to Sense Robustly and Act Effectively, (2009-2012)
• GSRC (The GigaScale Systems Research Center) - co-PI, Mobile Driver: Vision Assistance using Visual Sonification (2009-2012)
• ARMY/ARO, Information and Signal Processing, co-PI, “Sparse representation of multimodality sensing databases for data mining and retrieval”, (2009-2014)
• FORD corporation, PI, “Robust target detection for safe driving applications”, (2009-2011)
• TOYOTA corporation, co-PI, “Active sensing of the physical environment for autonomous systems”, (2009-2011)
• NSF # 0800500, co-PI “Interactive Ubiquitous Visualization of Construction Progress Monitoring with D4AR (4 Dimensional Augmented Reality) Models” – (2008-2010)
• NSF IIS , co-PI, “3D Perception of Specular surfaces” – $320,000 (2005-2009)

• Best student paper award in IEEE CORP 2011 workshop, in conjunction with ICCV 2011.
• GSRC Margarida Jacome Best Poster/Demo Award at the Annual Symposium of the Gigascale Systems Research Center, 2011
• Best Student Paper Award, Proc. of the 6th Int. Conf. on Innovations in AEC Special Session - Transformative machine vision for AEC (2010).
• Technical Session Award (Computer Science and Engineering), 2010 University of Michigan Engineering Graduate Symposium.
• CRC First Place Poster Award, Proc., Construction Research Congress, Seattle, Washington, May 22-24, 2009
• 2011 Rackham International Student Fellowship
• Best poster presentation award, 2009 Engineering Graduate Symposium (University of Michigan).

• Fall 2011: Computer Vision (EECS  442)
• Fall 2010: Advanced Topics in Mobile Computer Vision (EECS 598)
• Fall 2010: Computer Vision (EECS  442)
• Winter 2009: Image Processing (EECS 556)
• Fall 2009: Computer Vision (EECS  442)
• Winter 2009: Special Topics in Computer Vision (EECS 598)
• Fall 2008: Computer Vision (EECS  442)