Academic Background: Pietro Perona earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 1990.
Research Interests: His research focuses on computer vision, machine learning, and visual recognition.
Appointments: Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech.
Awards: Longuet-Higgins Prize for Fundamental Contributions to Computer Vision.
Publications: Co-authored seminal papers on object recognition in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
Additional Contributions: Perona co-developed the Caltech-101 dataset for computer vision research.