Olga Russakovsky
Olga Russakovsky earned her Stanford doctorate in September 2015, advised by Fei-Fei Li, with the thesis Scaling Up Object Detection. She then held a Carnegie Mellon postdoctoral fellowship through June 2017. Russakovsky co-founded AI4ALL in 2017. The nonprofit works to create pathways into AI for a more diverse generation of learners and leaders. She received the 2022 PAMI Young Researcher Award and an NSF CAREER award on overcoming bias in computer vision. Her research connects computer vision with human-computer interaction, fairness and accountability.
- Now at
- AI4ALL
- Works
- 234
- Citations
- 45,163
- h-index
- 36
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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2015
Scaling object detection
Olga Russakovsky earned her Stanford doctorate in September 2015, advised by Fei-Fei Li, with the thesis Scaling Up Object Detection. She then held a Carnegie Mellon postdoctoral fellowship through June 2017.
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2017
AI4ALL
Russakovsky co-founded AI4ALL in 2017. The nonprofit works to create pathways into AI for a more diverse generation of learners and leaders.
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2022
Fairness and visual research
She received the 2022 PAMI Young Researcher Award and an NSF CAREER award on overcoming bias in computer vision. Her research connects computer vision with human-computer interaction, fairness and accountability.
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