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Pedro Felzenszwalb

Also known as Pedro Felipe Felzenszwalb, Pedro F. Felzenszwalb

As of October 2026, Pedro Felzenszwalb is a professor at Brown University, where his main research interests include computer vision and machine learning. At Cornell, he began research in computer vision and artificial intelligence, and he earned a B.S. there in 1999. In 2004 he joined the University of Chicago as an assistant professor, and in 2011 he joined Brown as an associate professor. The 2014 Technical Achievement Award went to him for the deformable parts model, a method of detecting objects in images and video. He received the Longuet-Higgins Prize in 2010 and again in 2018, the second time for his 2008 paper on the deformable part model.

Timeline

  1. 1999–2003

    Degrees and early research

    At Cornell he earns a B.S. in computer science in 1999, and he begins research in computer vision and artificial intelligence there. He then receives an M.S. and a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 2001 and 2003.

  2. 2004–2011

    Professor at Chicago

    In 2004 he joins the University of Chicago as an assistant professor, and in 2008 he is made an associate professor.

  3. 2010

    The Longuet-Higgins Prize

    The Longuet-Higgins Prize comes to him in 2010 for a fundamental contribution to computer vision.

  4. 2011–2016

    Joining Brown University

    He joins Brown University in 2011 as an associate professor, with a joint appointment in computer science and engineering. He becomes a full professor there in 2016.

  5. 2013

    A Grace Murray Hopper Award

    In 2013 the Association for Computing Machinery gives him the Grace Murray Hopper Award for his contributions to object recognition in pictures and video.

  6. 2014

    A Technical Achievement Award

    The 2014 Technical Achievement Award goes to him for the deformable parts model method of detecting objects in images and video.

  7. 2018

    A second Longuet-Higgins Prize

    In 2018 he receives the Longuet-Higgins Prize a second time, for his 2008 paper 'A Discriminatively Trained, Multiscale, Deformable Part Model,' written with David McAllester and Deva Ramanan.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor at Brown

    He is a professor in the School of Engineering and the Department of Computer Science at Brown University. His main research interests are in computer vision, machine learning, and discrete algorithms.

Sources and credits

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  1. LMSS @ Cornell Tech: Pedro Felipe Felzenszwalb (Brown University) - Cornell Tech tech.cornell.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. Pedro Felipe Felzenszwalb - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. Pedro F. Felzenszwalb computer.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. Pedro Felzenszwalb Given Joint Faculty Appointment with Computer Science and Engineering posts.cs.brown.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. Felzenszwalb Wins The Longuet-Higgins Prize For Fundamental Contributions To Computer Vision cs.brown.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.