Joseph Redmon
Also known as Joseph Chet Redmon, Joe Redmon
Joseph Redmon is a computer vision researcher and co-author of the YOLO paper on real-time object detection. He completed a Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 2021, after a 2018 Google fellowship. The 2016 CVPR paper that introduced YOLO won a People's Choice Award, and in 2026 the IEEE Computer Society awarded it the Longuet-Higgins Prize. In February 2020, he said on Twitter that he had stopped doing computer vision research, citing military applications and privacy concerns. As of October 2026, he works on the OlmoEarth team at Ai2, building AI for environmental and humanitarian groups.
- Works
- 17
- Citations
- 81,089
- h-index
- 9
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.
Timeline
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2016
You Only Look Once
He, Santosh Divvala, Ross Girshick and Ali Farhadi present You Only Look Once, a paper on real-time object detection, at CVPR 2016. The work wins a People's Choice Award at that conference.
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2017
A Best Paper honorable mention
He and Ali Farhadi publish YOLO9000: Better, Faster, Stronger, which earns a Best Paper Honorable Mention at CVPR 2017.
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2018
A Google Ph.D. Fellowship
The Allen School names him a 2018 Google Ph.D. Fellow for his computer vision research.
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2018
A TEDx talk on drone targeting
In a 2018 TEDx talk, he says he was horrified to learn that the U.S. Army used his algorithms to help battlefield drones track targets.
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February 2020
Stepping away from vision research
In February 2020, he says on Twitter that he has stopped doing computer vision research, citing military applications and privacy concerns.
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2021
A Ph.D. on practical vision
He completes a Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 2021, with a dissertation titled Practical Computer Vision.
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2026
A Longuet-Higgins Prize
The IEEE Computer Society presents the 2026 Longuet-Higgins Prize to the YOLO paper.
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As of October 2026
Work on OlmoEarth at Ai2
He works on the OlmoEarth team at Ai2, building AI for environmental and humanitarian groups.
Sources and credits
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- CVPR 2016 Open Access Repository
- Why YOLO's Co-Creator No Longer Works on Computer Vision
- Joseph Redmon - Survival Strategies for the Robot Rebellion
- Allen School News Archive » Allen School's Joseph Redmon wins Google Ph.D. Fellowship
- YOLO Creator Joseph Redmon Stopped CV Research Due to Ethical Concerns | Synced
- Joseph Redmon - The Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Awards