BIO

Silvio Savarese is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2005. He joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2005 to 2008 as a Beckman Institute Fellow. In 2002 he was a recipient of the Walker von Brimer Award for outstanding research initiative. His research interests include computer vision, object and scene recognition, shape representation and reconstruction, human visual perception and visual psychophysics.

Silvio Savarese has been active in promoting research in the field of 3D object representation; he co-chaired and organized the first and second IEEE sponsored international workshop on 3D Representation for Recognition (3dRR-07, 3dRR-09) and he is editor of the Elsevier Journal in Computer Vision and Image Understanding, special issue on “3D Representation for Recognition”, 2009.

Education
• 2005: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
• 2001: M.S. in Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena
• 1998: Laura Degree in Electrical Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Professional Appointments
• 2008-present:  Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI
•  2005–2008: Beckman Fellowship, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• NSF award #0800500, “Interactive Ubiquitous Visualization of Construction Progress Monitoring with D4AR (4 Dimensional Augmented Reality) Models” (2008-2011)
• NSF award # 0413312, “3D Perception of Specular surfaces” (2005-2008)
• Beckman Fellowship, awarded by the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2005–2008)