Kris Kitani (PhD)

Assistant Research Professor in the Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science;
Courtesy Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department;
Director of the Master of Science Computer Vision (MSCV) Program
Carnegie Mellon University

Research Fellow in the Institute of Industrial Science at the
University of Tokyo

Research Interests: computer vision, human activity forecasting, first-person vision, inverse reinforcement learning, deep learning, assistive technologies for the blind

Hiring Information:
(November 2018) Postdoc position available in computer vision and HCI.

Short Bio
Assistant Research Professor at CMU (current)
Systems Scientist at CMU (2013-2016)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at CMU with Martial Hebert and Drew Bagnell (2011-2013)
Jyokyo (Research Associate / Assistant Professor) at UEC Tokyo (2008-2011)
Visiting scholar at UCSD with Serge Belongie (2010)
University of Tokyo (MS 2005, PhD 2008)
Engineer at KLA-Tencor (2000-2003)
University of Southern California (BS, Electrical Engineering 2000)

News
Dec. 2018 Two papers accepted to CHI2019!
Dec. 2018 Cognitive Assistance Lab website updated!
Nov. 2018 Two papers accepted to WACV2019!
Sep. 2018 Two papers accepted to CORL 2018!
Jul. 2018 Two papers accepted to ECCV2018!
Jul. 2018 Paper on Deep Image Hashing accepted to BMVC 2018!
May. 2018 Paper on Network Compression using RL accepted to ICLR 2018!
Jan. 2018 4 papers accepted to WACV 2018!
Nov. 2017 2 papers accepted to AAAI 2018!
Oct. 2017 Paper awarded Marr Prize honorable mention at ICCV!
Jul. 2017 Two papers accepted to ICCV 2017!
Apr. 2017 Paper on Multi-Agent Forecasting accepted to CVPR 2017!
Feb. 2017 Best Paper Honorable Mention at CHI 2017!

Research Projects