Kristen
Grauman is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science
at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research in
computer vision and machine learning focuses on video
understanding and embodied perception. Before joining
UT-Austin in 2007, she received her Ph.D. at MIT. She
also held previous positions as a Director in the Fundamental
AI Research lab (FAIR) at Meta, a postdoctoral fellow at MIT,
and a visiting research fellow at the Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory. She is an IEEE Fellow,
AAAS Fellow, AAAI Fellow, Sloan Fellow, a Microsoft Research
New Faculty Fellow, and a recipient of the 2025 Huang Prize,
NSF CAREER and ONR Young Investigator awards, the PAMI
Young Researcher Award, the 2013 Computers and Thought Award
from the International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (IJCAI), and the Presidential Early Career Award
for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). She was inducted
into the UT Academy of Distinguished Teachers in 2017.
She and her collaborators have been recognized with several
Best Paper awards in computer vision, including a 2011 Marr
Prize, a 2017 Helmholtz Prize (test of time award), and three
EgoVis Distinguished Paper awards in 2024 and 2025. She
served for six years as an Associate Editor-in-Chief for the
Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
(PAMI) and for ten years as an Editorial Board member for the
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV). She also served as a
Program Chair of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and
Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in 2015, Neural Information
Processing Systems (NeurIPS) in 2018, and IEEE International
Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) in 2023.