Alan L. Yuille | |
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| Born | 1955 (age 69–70) |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge(B.A., 1976) University of Cambridge(Ph.D., 1981) |
| Spouse | Seyoun Park |
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| Fields | Computer Vision Machine Learning Statistical Modeling Artificial Intelligence |
| Thesis | Topics in Quantum Gravity |
| Doctoral advisor | S. W. Hawking |
| Doctoral students | Russell Epstein |
| Website | CCVL Group website |
Alan Yuille (born 1955) is aBloomberg Distinguished Professor of Computational Cognitive Science[1] with appointments in the departments of Cognitive Science[2] and Computer Science[3] atJohns Hopkins University. Yuille develops models of vision and cognition for computers, intended for creating artificial vision systems.[1] He studied underStephen Hawking atCambridge University on aPhD intheoretical physics, which he completed in 1981.
Alan Yuille obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree inmathematics from theUniversity of Cambridge in 1976, where he also earned his PhD intheoretical physics in 1981.[3] He then completed apostdoctoral fellowship at theUniversity of Texas at Austin and theUniversity of California, Santa Barbara. Yuille served as a research scientist first at theArtificial Intelligence Laboratory at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology, where he stayed from 1982 until 1986, and then atHarvard University. Here, he was promoted to assistant professor of computer science in 1988 and associate professor in 1992. In 1995, he joined theSmith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute inSan Francisco as a senior research scientist. In 2002, he was appointed as a full professor in the department of statistics at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles with joint appointments in the departments of computer science, psychiatry, and psychology.[4] He also served as co-director of the UCLA Center for Cognition, Vision, and Learning.[5] In 2016, Yuille joined Johns Hopkins University as the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Computational Cognitive Science.[6] The Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship program was established in 2013 by a gift fromMichael Bloomberg to endow professors whose areas of expertise bridge traditional academic disciplines and promote cross-disciplinary research and collaboration.[7][8] Yuille holds appointments in the department of cognitive science in theZanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and in the department of computer science in theWhiting School of Engineering.[1]
Yuille developsmathematical models of vision and cognition that enable computers to reconstruct three-dimensional structures based on images or videos.[6] His research interests includecomputational models of vision, mathematical models of cognition,medical image analysis, and artificial intelligence and neural networks.[3] He directs the Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning (CCVL) research group at Johns Hopkins University.[2] Yuille and the CCVL develop models for designing artificial vision systems to provide assistance for people with vision impairments;[9] computational models of biological vision;[10] computational models of cognition to study how humans and animals perform tasks such as learning and reasoning;[11][12] and models for machine learning to interpret medical images.[13]
Yuille is currently working on The Felix Project (named after the fictional potionFelix Felicis, which, in the world ofHarry Potter, brings drinkers unusually good luck). The project aims to usedeep learning to improve early detection ofpancreatic cancer by training computers to recognize it inCT scans andmagnetic resonance images.[14][15] Yuille and collaborators are attempting to developalgorithms to interpret CT and MR images of thepancreas and distinguish between a normal pancreas and a pancreas with a range ofpathologies includingtumors.[16]
Yuille has over 300 publications including three books (one co-edited). He has more than 111,000 citations in Google Scholar and an h-index of 139.[17]
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