Juan Carlos Niebles Duque

Personal bio
Juan Carlos Niebles is Vice President, Research at Samsung Research America and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he serves as co-Director of the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab. His research focuses on the intersection of computer vision, machine learning, multimodal AI, and autonomous agents. With over 100 published articles in top-tier venues, Juan Carlos is a recognized leader in the global AI community. His career spans significant industry-academic leadership, including roles as Research Director at Salesforce AI Research, Associate Director of Research for the Stanford-Toyota Center for AI Research, and Senior Research Scientist at the Stanford AI Lab. He also held a long-term professorship at Universidad del Norte in Colombia. Beyond research, he helps shape the AI ecosystem as a member of the AI Index Steering Committee, Curriculum Director for Stanford-AI4ALL, and as an Area Chair for CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV. He also served as an Associate Editor for IEEE TPAMI. His contributions have been recognized with the Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship, several Google Research Awards, and a Fulbright Fellowship. In 2025, he was named one of the Top 100 most prominent leaders in AI in Colombia and was previously a Forty Under Forty recipient. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, an M.Sc. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an Electronics Engineering degree from Universidad del Norte.

Currently teaching

CS 131: Computer Vision: Foundations and Applications (Winter)
CS 390A: Curricular Practical Training (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer)
CS 390B: Curricular Practical Training (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer)
CS 191W: Writing Intensive Senior Research Project (Autumn, Winter, Spring)
CS 499P: Advanced Reading and Research (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer)
CS 191: Senior Project (Autumn, Winter, Spring)
CS 199: Independent Work (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer)
CS 499: Advanced Reading and Research (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer)
CS 399: Independent Project (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer)
CS 195: Supervised Undergraduate Research (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer)
CS 390D: Part-time Curricular Practical Training (Spring)