Kristen Grauman
Kristen Grauman researches computer vision, machine learning and first-person perception. She earned her MIT doctorate in 2006 and joined Texas as an assistant professor in 2007. She received the PAMI Young Researcher and IJCAI Computers and Thought awards in 2013 and became an AAAI Fellow in 2019. With a large collaboration she introduced Ego4D, a dataset and benchmark suite for everyday activity from a camera wearer’s perspective. Her later work includes Ego-Exo4D, and she was a FAIR research director through 2025.
- Works
- 350
- Citations
- 29,757
- h-index
- 89
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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2006–2007
Doctoral study and Texas
Grauman earned an MIT computer-science doctorate in July 2006 and joined Texas as an assistant professor in 2007. Her research interests include visual recognition, video, multimodal learning and first-person perception. Her work examines the information a visual learning system needs to recognize objects and activities.
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2013–2019
Computer-vision and AI recognition
She received the PAMI Young Researcher Award and IJCAI Computers and Thought Award in 2013. AAAI elected her a Fellow in 2019. She became a full professor at Texas in 2017 and served as a FAIR research director from 2018 to 2025.
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2021–2022
Ego4D and everyday activity
Grauman and a large international collaboration introduced Ego4D in a 2021 preprint, followed by the 2022 CVPR paper. The original abstract describes an egocentric video dataset and benchmarks for memory, hand-object interaction, conversation and activity forecasting.
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2025–2026
A continuing first-person vision program
Grauman received the 2025 PAMI Thomas S. Huang Memorial Prize and later shared work on skilled human activity through Ego-Exo4D. Her research program combines first-person perception, multimodal learning and recognition.
Sources and credits
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