Jason J. Corso

Timeline

1. 2000–2005

   PhD at Johns Hopkins

   He earns a BS with honors from Loyola College in Maryland in 2000, then an MSE in 2002 and a PhD in 2005, both in computer science at Johns Hopkins University. He spends two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles.

2. 2007–2014

   Faculty at Buffalo, then Michigan

   He is a member of the Computer Science and Engineering faculty at SUNY Buffalo from 2007 to 2014. He then joins the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan.

3. 2009–2018

   NSF, Army and Google awards

   He receives the NSF CAREER Award in 2009 and the Army Research Office Young Investigator Award in 2010. A Google Faculty Research Award follows in 2015, and the Michigan EECS Outstanding Achievement Award in 2018.

4. 2012–2019

   Video understanding papers

   In 2012, he coauthors Action Bank, a high-level representation of activity in video, with Sreemanananth Sadanand at CVPR. In 2018, he coauthors work on learning procedures from web instructional videos at AAAI, and in 2019, Grounded video description at CVPR.

5. 2018

   Co-founding Voxel51

   In 2018, he teams up with his PhD student Brian Moore at the University of Michigan to found Voxel51, which turns their research into developer-friendly tooling for computer-vision data. Its FiftyOne platform serves ML teams who work with multimodal data at scale.

6. 2022

   Founding Robotics faculty at Michigan

   In 2022, he becomes a founding faculty member of the new Department of Robotics at the University of Michigan. He is jointly appointed in Robotics and EECS.

7. February 2025

   AI for rural mobile clinics

   In February 2025, Michigan announces an ARPA-H-funded effort to build an AI agent that guides medical generalists through unfamiliar diagnoses and procedures in a mobile clinic. He directs the AI project, which has up to $25 million and a team drawn from eight universities and RTX BBN Technologies. The work builds on his earlier AI guidance agents for cooking and battlefield medicine.

8. January 2026

   Toyota Professor of AI

   In January 2026, the University of Michigan names him the Toyota Professor of Artificial Intelligence, recognizing his contributions to computer vision, artificial intelligence, and multimodal machine learning. His research spans video understanding, vision-language reasoning, and AI systems for healthcare and robotics. He is a Professor of Robotics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Co-Founder and CSO of Voxel51.