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Dima Damen

Dima Damen is a computer-vision researcher whose work studies actions and object interactions in first-person video. She earned degrees in computer science and multimedia systems at Birzeit and Leeds, taught at Petra University, completed a PhD under David Hogg, and joined Bristol in 2010. She coauthored work on EPIC-KITCHENS, an egocentric video benchmark, and the CVPR paper presenting HD-EPIC, a highly detailed validation dataset. As of October 2026, she is Professor of Computer Vision at Bristol and Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind.

Works
241
Citations
7,439
h-index
34
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2002–2003

    Degrees at Birzeit and Leeds

    She earns a BSc in Computer Science at Birzeit University in 2002 and an MSc with High Distinction in Distributed Multimedia Systems at the University of Leeds in 2003.

  2. 2003–2009

    Teaching and a Leeds doctorate

    She lectures at Petra University from 2003 to 2006 and completes a PhD in computer vision at Leeds under David Hogg in 2009.

  3. 2010–2021

    Academic posts at Bristol

    She joins Bristol as a Postdoctoral Researcher from 2010 to 2012, then serves as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer from 2013 to 2018 and Reader from 2018 to 2021. In August 2021, she becomes Professor of Computer Vision.

  4. 2016–2020

    You-Do, I-Learn and EPIC-KITCHENS

    Nokia Technologies awards her a €50,000 charitable donation in 2016 for egocentric-vision research on object interactions. Her You-Do, I-Learn project uses a glass-mounted camera to identify objects a wearer uses and how people interact with them. Her 2020 paper describes EPIC-KITCHENS, introduced in 2018 as a large-scale egocentric video benchmark that offers a view of object interactions, attention, and intention.

  5. 2021–2025

    Conference and journal leadership

    She chairs ICCV in 2021 and serves as Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE TPAMI from 2023 to 2025.

  6. 2024

    An ELLIS fellowship

    In November 2024, she is selected as an ELLIS Fellow.

  7. 2025

    The HD-EPIC dataset

    In March 2025, EPIC-KITCHENS releases HD-EPIC, a large-scale, highly detailed validation dataset. Damen coauthors the CVPR 2025 paper that presents it.

  8. As of October 2026

    Bristol professor and DeepMind scientist

    As of October 2026, she is a Professor of Computer Vision at the University of Bristol and Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. She is part of DeepMind's Vision team and works on video understanding research; her 2026 work includes a CVPR paper on learning from single-life videos.

Career

  1. Since 2024Google DeepMindSenior Staff Research Scientist
  2. Since 2010University of BristolPostdoctoral Researcher, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer
  3. 2003–2006Petra UniversityLecturer

Education

  1. 2009University of LeedsPhD in computer vision
  2. 2003University of LeedsMSc with High Distinction in Distributed Multimedia Systems
  3. 2002Birzeit UniversityBSc in Computer Science

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

Most-cited works

  1. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)2007 · 1,190 citationsWith David Hogg
  2. Scaling Egocentric Vision: The "Equation missing" Dataset2018 · Lecture notes in computer science · 824 citationsWith Sanja Fidler
  3. Ego4D: Around the World in 3,000 Hours of Egocentric Video2022 · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 625 citationsWith Antonio Torralba, Aude Oliva, C. V. Jawahar, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Dhruv Batra and Haizhou Li
  4. Rescaling Egocentric Vision: Collection, Pipeline and Challenges for EPIC-KITCHENS-1002021 · International Journal of Computer Vision · 398 citations
  5. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)2009 · 333 citationsWith David Hogg

From OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

  1. The median h-index is 53 at universities and 19 at frontier AI labsIncludes Dima Damen. The median h-index is 53 at universities and 19 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, citations and moves to estimate how universities and frontier labs contribute to AI research.
  2. 14% of AI career moves in the 2020s went from a university to a companyIncludes Dima Damen. Our estimates of how university-to-company career transitions changed by decade, including roles added alongside an earlier job.
  3. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Google. Our estimates of combined and median h-index at AI organizations, using current affiliations and OpenAlex records.
  4. Google alumni founded or led 87 other organizations, the most among the labs we compareIncludes Google. We trace 212 organizations founded or led by AI lab alumni, and 223 career moves between the labs.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Dima Damen, Professor of Computer Vision, University of Bristol dimadamen.github.io. Checked 19 October 2026.
  2. Professor Dima Damen - Our People bristol.ac.uk. Checked 19 October 2026.
  3. Researchers awarded £38K donation by Nokia for wearable object interaction bristol.ac.uk. Checked 19 October 2026.
  4. The EPIC-KITCHENS Dataset: Collection, Challenges and Baselines arxiv.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  5. Dima Damen, Professor of Computer Vision, University of Bristol dimadamen.github.io. Checked 19 October 2026.
  6. Spotlight on Dima Damen | European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems ellis.eu. Checked 19 October 2026.
  7. EPIC-KITCHENS Dataset epic-kitchens.github.io. Checked 19 October 2026.