Alan L. Yuille

Timeline

1. 1976–1981

   A physics PhD under Hawking

   He earns a BA in mathematics at Cambridge in 1976 and a PhD in theoretical physics in 1981, supervised by Stephen Hawking.

2. 1982–1996

   MIT and Harvard research posts

   He joins MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Harvard's Division of Applied Sciences as a research scientist in 1982. He serves as an assistant and associate professor at Harvard until 1996.

3. 1996–2002

   Senior scientist at Smith-Kettlewell

   He joins the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute as a senior research scientist in 1996, and he remains there until 2002.

4. 2002–2016

   A UCLA statistics professorship

   He joins UCLA as a full professor of statistics in 2002, with joint appointments in psychology, computer science and psychiatry.

5. 2003–2013

   Marr and Helmholtz prizes

   His paper “Image Parsing: Unifying Segmentation, Detection and Recognition” wins the ICCV Marr Prize in 2003. In 2013 he and Song-Chun Zhu win the Helmholtz test-of-time award.

6. 2016

   Moving to Johns Hopkins

   He joins Johns Hopkins University in 2016 as the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Computational Cognitive Science.

7. 2026

   A Frontiers of Science Award

   In 2026 he and his co-authors receive a Frontiers of Science Award from the International Congress for Basic Science for their DeepLab segmentation paper.

8. As of October 2026

   Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins

   He is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Computational Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University and directs the Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning group. His research covers computational models of vision, mathematical models of cognition, medical image analysis, and artificial intelligence and neural networks.