Vladlen Koltun

Vladlen Koltun
Vladlen Koltun
ולדלן קולטן
Born	1980
Nationality	Israeli–American
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	Tel Aviv University (B.S.), (PhD); University of California, Berkeley (Postdoctoral research);
Known for	Adobe Fuse CC; Convolutional neural networks research in the field of visual imagery; Virtual reality simulators for urban driving and drones; OpenBot; Photorealism enhancement;
Awards	Sloan Research Fellowship; National Science Foundation's Career Award; Machtey Award (2001);
	Scientific career
Fields	Autonomous Driving; Computer Graphics; Computer Vision; Machine Learning; Robotics;
Institutions	Stanford University; Adobe Inc.; Intel; Apple Inc.;
Thesis	Arrangements in four dimensions and related structures (2002)
Doctoral advisor	Micha Sharir
Other academic advisors	Christos Papadimitriou
Website	vladlen.info

Vladlen Koltun (Hebrew: ולדלן קולטן; born 1980) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and intelligent systems researcher. He currently serves as distinguished scientist at Apple Inc. His main areas of research are artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, and pattern recognition. He also made a significant contribution to robotics and autonomous driving.

Koltun's contributions to research and publications are in the areas of convolutional neural networks, reality simulation, view synthesis, photorealistic rendering, urban self-driving cars simulation, 3D computer graphics, robot locomotion, and drones maneuverability in dynamic environments.

He is also known for his work on the photorealism enhancement system, and for the critical study of the Hirsch index, a metric of scientists' work that is common in the community.