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Faculty HighlightsFebruary 23, 2009 Vidal awarded Sloan Research FellowshipThe Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded a 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship
to Dr. René Vidal. The Sloan Research Fellowships seeks to recognize the
achievements of outstanding young scholars in science, mathematics,
economics and computer science. Past recipients of Sloan Research
Fellowships have gone on to win 38 Nobel prizes and 14 Fields Medals
(mathematics).
Dr. Vidal is an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical
Engineering of Johns Hopkins University, with joint appointments in
Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical
Engineering. He is the director of the Vision Dynamics and Learning Lab,
which is part of the Center for Imaging Science (CIS) and the Institute for
Computational Medicine (ICM). He is also affiliated with the Laboratory for
Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR).
His research spans a wide range of areas in biomedical imaging, computer
vision, machine learning, dynamical systems theory and robotics. In
particular, he is interested in the development of computational methods
for (1) inferring models from images (image/video segmentation, motion
segmentation), static data (subspace clustering) or dynamic data
(identification of hybrid systems), and (2) using such models to accomplish
a complex task (recognize actions in videos, land a helicopter on a moving
platform, pursue a team of evaders, follow a formation, etc.).
Dr. Vidal has received several awards for his research, including the 2005
NFS CAREER Award, the 2004 Best Paper Award Honorable Mention at the
European Conference on Computer Vision, the 2004 Sakrison Memorial Prize
for "completing an exceptionally documented piece of research", and the 2003
Eli Jury award for "outstanding achievement in the area of Systems,
Communications, Control, or Signal Processing."
Posted: February 23, 2009
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