Pedro Felzenszwalb is a Professor of Engineering and Computer Science at Brown University in the Computer Science faculty. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1999, M.S. in Computer Science from MIT in 2001, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT in 2003, with his doctoral thesis on Representation and Detection of Shapes in Images advised by W. Eric L. Grimson. His academic career began with a postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University from 2003 to 2004. He then joined the University of Chicago as Assistant Professor from 2004 to 2008 and Associate Professor from 2008 to 2011. In 2011, he moved to Brown University as Associate Professor, advancing to full Professor in 2016. He also held a Visiting Professor position at Cornell University from 2009 to 2010.

Felzenszwalb's research focuses on computer vision, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and algorithms, particularly in areas such as object recognition, image segmentation, optimization, and signal processing. His groundbreaking contributions include the discriminatively trained deformable part models for object detection, introduced in "Object Detection with Discriminatively Trained Part-Based Models" (IEEE TPAMI, 2010, with Ross Girshick, David McAllester, and Deva Ramanan), and foundational work on image segmentation in "Efficient Graph-based Image Segmentation" (IJCV, 2004, with Daniel Huttenlocher). Other influential publications are "A Discriminatively Trained, Multiscale, Deformable Part Model" (CVPR, 2008), "Efficient Belief Propagation for Early Vision" (IJCV, 2006), and "Visual Object Detection with Deformable Part Models" (Communications of the ACM, 2013). These works have shaped modern computer vision techniques and garnered over 39,000 citations. Felzenszwalb has earned major awards including the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award (2013), IEEE Technical Achievement Award (2014), Longuet-Higgins Prize (2010 and 2018), PASCAL Visual Object Challenge Lifetime Achievement Prize (2010), and NSF CAREER Award (2008). He has served as Program Chair for IEEE CVPR (2011), Associate Editor for IEEE TPAMI (2009-2013), and Editorial Board member for IJCV (2009-2018). At Brown, he teaches courses like Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Linear System Analysis, and Topics in Optimization, and has mentored notable students including Ross Girshick.

Professional Email: pff@brown.edu