Angjoo Kanazawa

Angjoo Kanazawa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley. Her research is at the intersection of Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, and Machine Learning, focusing on the visual perception of the dynamic 3D world behind everyday photographs and video. Previously, she was a research scientist at Google NYC, and prior to that she was a BAIR postdoc at UC Berkeley. She completed her PhD in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she also spent time at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. She has been named a Rising Star in EECS and is a recipient of Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, Best Paper Award in Eurographics 2016, Google Research Scholar Award 2021, and a Spark Fellow 2022. She also serves on the advisory board of Wonder Dynamics, whose goal is to utilize AI technologies to make VFX effects more accessible for indie filmmakers, and PainScan, whose goal is to make chronic pain visible in 3D so they can be properly diagnosed and treated.