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James Hays

Also known as James H. Hays

James Hays is a professor at Georgia Tech, and he works with Overland AI on off-road autonomous vehicles. His education includes a Georgia Tech B.S. in 2003 and a Carnegie Mellon Ph.D. in 2009, completed with Alexei Efros. In 2010 he joined Brown's computer science faculty, and the NSF CAREER award in 2012 and the Sloan fellowship in 2015 followed. He co-authored Microsoft COCO, a dataset for object recognition, and from 2017 to 2022 he was a principal scientist at Argo AI. He co-authored Argoverse 2 in 2021, and in 2024 SIGGRAPH gave him a test-of-time award for a paper he co-authored in 2012.

Timeline

  1. 2003–2009

    Degrees from Georgia Tech and Carnegie Mellon

    He earns a B.S. in computer science from Georgia Tech in 2003 and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon in 2009, working with Alexei Efros.

  2. 2010–2015

    Assistant professor at Brown

    He joins Brown's computer science faculty in the spring of 2010. He wins an NSF CAREER award in 2012. In 2015 the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation names him one of 126 new fellows.

  3. 2014

    The Microsoft COCO dataset

    In 2014 he co-authors Microsoft COCO, a dataset for object recognition.

  4. 2017–2022

    Principal scientist at Argo AI

    He works as a principal scientist at Argo AI from 2017 to 2022, researching self-driving vehicle perception.

  5. 2019

    Argoverse at CVPR 2019

    He co-authors the 2019 CVPR paper on Argoverse, a dataset for autonomous vehicles.

  6. 2021

    Argoverse 2 datasets

    In 2021 he co-authors Argoverse 2, a collection of three datasets for perception and forecasting research in the self-driving domain.

  7. 2024

    A SIGGRAPH test-of-time award

    In 2024 SIGGRAPH gives him a test of time award for a paper he co-authored in 2012.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor at Georgia Tech

    He is a professor at Georgia Tech, and he teaches computer vision there in fall 2026. He also works with Overland AI on off-road autonomous vehicles.

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  1. James Hays | Research Community research.gatech.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. James Hays cc.gatech.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. James Hays Promoted To Associate Professor With Tenure posts.cs.brown.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. James Hays Receives NSF CAREER Award posts.cs.brown.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. Hays awarded Sloan Fellowship | News from Brown news.brown.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. [1405.0312] Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context arxiv.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  7. James Hays | College of Computing cc.gatech.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  8. James Hays | School of Interactive Computing ic.gatech.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  9. CVPR 2019 Open Access Repository openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  10. Argoverse Gives Researchers Access to New Datasets for Autonomous Vehicles | Mercury tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  11. Argoverse 2: Next Generation Datasets for Self-Driving Perception and Forecasting datasets-benchmarks-proceedings.neurips.cc. Checked 14 October 2026.
  12. Interactive Computing Faculty Earn Test of Time Awards for Impactful Research ic.gatech.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.