PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Andrew Owens

Andrew Owens is a computer scientist whose research connects vision, sound, and touch through machine perception. He earned a computer science B.A. at Cornell in 2010 and a Ph.D. at MIT in 2016. His papers include a 2015 study that predicts sounds from silent video, a 2017 study that uses ambient audio to train visual models, and a 2023 paper on camera metadata for image forensics. He held a UC Berkeley postdoctoral role, spent five years as an assistant professor at Michigan, received an NSF CAREER Award in 2024, and became a Sloan Research Fellow in 2025. As of October 2026, he is an associate professor of computer science at Cornell Tech, where his work includes soundtracks for silent videos, robotic manipulation with vision and touch, and AI-generated image detection.

Works
86
Citations
7,165
h-index
29
Badges
Links
Website, Google Scholar, X and GitHub

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2010–2016

    Computer science at Cornell and MIT

    He earns a B.A. in computer science at Cornell in 2010 and a Ph.D. in computer science at MIT in 2016.

  2. 2015–2017

    Sound prediction and visual learning

    In 2015, he coauthors Visually Indicated Sounds, which predicts an object's sound when struck to study physical interactions in a visual scene. His 2017 paper Learning Sight from Sound uses ambient audio as supervision for visual models that learn about objects and scenes.

  3. 2016–2019

    Postdoctoral research at Berkeley

    From 2016 to 2019, he works as a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley.

  4. 2020–2025

    Assistant professor at Michigan

    He teaches Michigan's computer vision course in fall 2020 and fall 2024 during five years as an assistant professor in its EECS department, before joining Cornell Tech in 2025.

  5. 2023

    EXIF as Language

    In 2023, he coauthors EXIF as Language, which links image patches with camera metadata and learns features for image-forensics and calibration tasks.

  6. 2024

    An NSF CAREER Award

    He receives an NSF CAREER Award in 2024.

  7. 2025

    A Sloan Research Fellowship

    He is named a Sloan Research Fellow in 2025. His research builds machine perception systems using multisensory data and spans computer vision, robotics, and digital media integrity.

  8. As of October 2026

    Associate professor at Cornell Tech

    As of October 2026, he is an associate professor of computer science at Cornell Tech. His research creates multimodal systems that learn to see, hear, and touch, with applications in silent-video soundtracks, robotic manipulation with vision and touch, and detecting AI-generated images.

Career

  1. Since 2025Cornell UniversityAssociate Professor
  2. 2020–2025University of MichiganAssistant professor
  3. 2018–2020University of California, BerkeleyPostdoctoral Scholar
  4. 2012–2014MIT CSAIL

Education

  1. 2016Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPh.D.
  2. 2010Cornell UniversityB.A.

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

  1. 11% of AI doctorate holders from 2010 to 2016 founded or led a company or lab by 10 years after graduationIncludes Cornell University. We estimate how often AI doctorate holders founded or led a company or lab by 10 years after graduation, how waiting times compare between founders and top jobs, and which universities trained the most.
  2. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Cornell University. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  3. 84% of people shaping AI with recorded undergraduate and doctoral schools changed institutions for their doctorateIncludes Cornell University. 84% of people shaping AI with recorded undergraduate and doctoral schools changed institutions for their doctorate. Across 2,116 people with both an undergraduate degree and a doctorate recorded, we trace which undergraduate schools feed which doctoral programs, how often students stay at the same school, and how paths differ by birth-country region.
  4. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes Cornell University. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Cornell Tech - Andrew Owens tech.cornell.edu. Checked 22 October 2026.
  2. [1512.08512] Visually Indicated Sounds arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  3. [1712.07271] Learning Sight from Sound: Ambient Sound Provides Supervision for Visual Learning arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  4. Alexei A. Efros: Curriculum Vitae people.eecs.berkeley.edu. Checked 22 October 2026.
  5. Andrew Owens andrewowens.com. Checked 22 October 2026.
  6. Cornell Tech’s New Faculty Are Building Tech That Thinks, Feels, and Teaches tech.cornell.edu. Checked 22 October 2026.
  7. EXIF As Language: Learning Cross-Modal Associations Between Images and Camera Metadata openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 22 October 2026.
  8. FY 2025 Honors | 2025 Annual Report 2025.annualreport.umich.edu. Checked 22 October 2026.
  9. Andrew Owens | Department of Computer Science | Cornell Bowers cs.cornell.edu. Checked 22 October 2026.