Juan Carlos Niebles Duque

Personal bio
Juan Carlos Niebles received an Engineering degree in Electronics from Universidad del Norte (Colombia) in 2002, an M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007, and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 2011. He is Research Director at Salesforce and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Stanford since 2021. He is co-Director of the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab. Before that, he was Associate Director of Research at the Stanford-Toyota Center for AI Research and a Senior Research Scientist at the Stanford AI Lab between 2015 and 2021. He was also an Associate Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Universidad del Norte (Colombia) between 2011 and 2019. His research interests are in computer vision, machine learning, multimodal AI and autonomous agents. Juan Carlos has published over 100 research articles in top-tier academic conferences and journals. He serves as Area Chair for CVPR, ICCV and ECCV, as well as Associate Editor for IEEE TPAMI. He is also a member of the AI Index Steering Committee and is the Curriculum Director for Stanford-AI4ALL. Juan Carlos has received several awards, including the Google Faculty Research award (2015), the Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship (2012), a Google Research award (2011) and a Fulbright Fellowship (2005).

Currently teaching

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