René Vidal

Rene Vidal
Born1974 (age 5051)
Alma materUniversidad Catolica de Chile
University of California, Berkeley
AwardsACM Fellow (2022)
Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award (2021)
AIMBE Fellow (2020)
IAPR Fellow (2016)
IEEE Fellow (2014)
IAPR Aggarwal Prize (2012)
Sloan Fellow (2009)
ONR Young Investigator Award (2009)
NSF CAREER Award (2004)
Scientific career
FieldsMachine learning
Computer vision
Medical Image Computing
Robotics
Control theory
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania
Johns Hopkins University
ThesisGeneralized Principal Component Analysis (GPCA): An Algebraic Geometric Approach to Subspace Clustering and Motion Segmentation (2003)
Doctoral advisorS. Shankar Sastry
Websitewww.cis.jhu.edu/~rvidal/

René Vidal (born 1974) is a Chilean electrical engineer and computer scientist who is known for his research in machine learning, computer vision, medical image computing, robotics, and control theory. He is the Rachleff University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with joint appointments in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Department of Radiology in the Perelman School of Medicine. He is also the founding director of the Center for Innovation in Data Engineering and Science (IDEAS).