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Stefano Soatto

Stefano Soatto is a computer vision and machine learning researcher whose work spans geometric reconstruction and applied AI services. He studied engineering at Padova, spent a year at UC Berkeley, and completed a PhD in control and dynamical systems at Caltech; his career then took him through Udine, Harvard, Washington University, and UCLA. His coauthored reconstruction paper won the 1999 David Marr Prize, and he was elected to the 2022 ACM Fellows class. At AWS, he led teams that developed AI services and foundation models, then coauthored a 2026 essay on inference time and model learning. As of October 2026, he is a vice president and distinguished scientist in AWS Agentic AI and a professor of computer science at UCLA.

Works
552
Citations
25,163
h-index
75

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

Photo of Stefano Soatto

Timeline

  1. 1990s

    Training across disciplines

    He studied engineering at the University of Padova and spent a year at UC Berkeley. At Caltech, he completed a PhD in control and dynamical systems in 1996.

  2. 1995–1998

    Research in Udine

    He worked as a researcher in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Udine.

  3. 1999

    A prize for reconstruction

    His coauthored paper “Euclidean Reconstruction and Reprojection up to Subgroups” won the David Marr Prize at ICCV.

  4. 2000

    Joining UCLA

    Before joining UCLA in 2000, he worked as a research associate at Harvard and as an assistant and then associate professor at Washington University.

  5. 2021

    An AI hub with UCLA

    At the 2021 launch of Amazon and UCLA’s Science Hub for Humanity and AI, he said the hub would expose university researchers to challenging problems in Amazon’s businesses.

  6. 2022

    An ACM Fellowship

    He was elected to the 2022 ACM Fellows class.

  7. 2024–2026

    Applied AI at AWS

    He led teams that developed AWS AI services for vision, speech, and language, and for forecasting, personalization, industrial AI, and foundation models such as Amazon Bedrock, Titan, and Q. In February 2026, he and Alessandro Achille coauthored an Amazon Science essay on how reduced inference time can help models continue to learn.

  8. As of October 2026

    Leading AWS Agentic AI

    His research interests include computer vision, machine learning, and robotics. As of October 2026, he is a vice president and distinguished scientist in AWS Agentic AI and a professor of computer science at UCLA.

Sources and credits

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  1. Alumnus Profile: Stefano Soatto (MS '93, PhD '96) - ENGenuity engenuity.caltech.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. Prof. Stefano Soatto Official Hompepage, UCLA web.cs.ucla.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. Publications people.cs.gmu.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. Amazon and UCLA establish Science Hub for Humanity and AI - Amazon Science amazon.science. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. Professor Stefano Soatto elected as ACM Fellow | CS cs.ucla.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. Intelligence isn’t about parameter count. It’s about time. - Amazon Science amazon.science. Checked 14 October 2026.
  7. Stefano Soatto | UCLA Samueli School Of Engineering samueli.ucla.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  8. CS 201 | Stefano Soatto, UCLA CS Department | CS cs.ucla.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.