Lingnan Fellow

Professor Guillermo SAPIRO

Professor G. Sapiro is the Augustine Family Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University and a Distinguished Engineer with Apple, Inc. He works on theory and applications in computer vision and machine learning. He has authored and co-authored over 550 papers in these areas and has written a book published by Cambridge University Press, January 2001. Professor Sapiro was awarded the Gutwirth Scholarship for Special Excellence in Graduate Studies in 1991, the Ollendorff Fellowship for Excellence in Vision and Image Understanding Work in 1992, the Rothschild Fellowship for Post-Doctoral Studies in 1993, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 1998, the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientist and Engineers (PECASE) in 1998, the National Science Foundation Career Award in 1999, and the National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship in 2010. He received the Test-of-Time award at ICCV 2011 and at ICML 2019, only researcher to receive Test-of-Time awards in both computer vision and machine learning major venues. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018 and to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022. He is also a Fellow of IEEE, SIAM and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences.