• Yann LeCun
New York University

Yann LeCun received an Electrical Engineer Diploma from Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Electrotechnique et Electronique (ESIEE), Paris in 1983, and a PhD in Computer Science from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris) in 1987. After a postdoc at the University of Toronto, he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, NJ, in 1988, and became head of the Image Processing Research Department at AT&T Labs-Research in 1996. In 2002 he became a Fellow at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton. He has been a professor of computer science at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences since 2003. Yann's research interests include computational and biological models of learning and perception, computer vision, mobile robotics, data compression, digital libraries, and the physical basis of computation. His image compression technology, called DjVu, is used by thousands of libraries and publishers to distribute scanned documents on-line, and his handwriting recognition technology is used to process a large percentage of bank checks in the US. He has been general chair of the annual Learning at Snowbird workshop since 1997, and program chair of CVPR 2006.
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• Hartmut Neven
Google Research

Hartmut Neven leads the image recognition research group at Google. He is best known for his work in face and object recognition. He received his PhD from the Institute for Neuroinformatics at the Ruhr University in 1996. Neven was assistant professor of computer science at the University of Southern California at the Laboratory for Biological and Computational Vision. Later, he returned as the head of the Laboratory for Human-Machine Interfaces at the Information Sciences Institute at USC. Neven co-founded two companies: Eyematic and Neven Vision.
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• Christopher Tyler
The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute