PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Tamara Berg

Also known as Tamara L. Berg, Tamara Lee Berg

Tamara Berg is a researcher in computer vision and natural language processing. She earned degrees at Wisconsin and Berkeley, then held faculty roles at Stony Brook and UNC. Her work includes Baby Talk and Midge, the Labeled Faces in the Wild face-recognition dataset, and Shopagon, an AI shopping platform Meta acquired in 2019. She received the 2013 Marr Prize, the 2019 Mark Everingham Award, the 2021 Longuet-Higgins Prize, and the 2022 ACL Test-of-Time Paper Award. In April 2025, she was working on an AI video assistant for real estate professionals, businesses, and creators.

Works
96
Citations
19,522
h-index
49

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

Photo of Tamara Berg

Timeline

  1. 2001–2007

    Wisconsin and Berkeley degrees

    She earns a B.S. in mathematics and computer science at Wisconsin in 2001 and completes a computer science PhD at Berkeley in 2007.

  2. 2008–2013

    Assistant professor at Stony Brook

    From 2008 to 2013, she serves as an assistant professor in Stony Brook University's computer science department.

  3. 2011–2012

    Baby Talk and Midge

    In 2011, she coauthors Baby Talk, a system that generates natural-language descriptions of images by combining text statistics with computer vision. In 2012, she coauthors Midge, which filters unlikely vision detections and places objects in an ordered syntactic structure to form image descriptions.

  4. 2013–2015

    UNC and the Marr Prize

    She joins UNC's computer science department in fall 2013 and becomes an associate professor in 2015. Her research connects computer vision and natural language processing. Her 2013 paper From Large Scale Image Categorization to Entry-Level Categories wins the Marr Prize.

  5. 2019

    Labeled Faces in the Wild

    With Erik Learned-Miller and Gary Huang, she receives the 2019 Mark Everingham Award for Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW), the face-recognition dataset they create in 2007. She works as a Facebook research scientist in 2019. Meta acquires Shopagon, her AI-driven online shopping platform, in 2019.

  6. 2021–2022

    Image captioning awards

    The Computer Vision Foundation recognizes her and her coauthors with its 2021 Longuet-Higgins Prize for Baby Talk. In 2022, ACL gives Midge its Test-of-Time Paper Award.

  7. April 2025

    An AI video assistant

    In April 2025, she works on an AI video assistant for real estate professionals, businesses, and creators.

Sources and credits

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  1. Understanding People Through Their Pictures | Benefunder benefunder.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. Tamara Berg - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. Baby Talk: Understanding and Generating Simple Image Descriptions | ML Anthology mlanthology.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. Hal Daumé III Part of Team Receiving ACL Test of Time Award | UMD Department of Computer Science cs.umd.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. Tamara L Berg tamaraberg.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. ICCV 2019 iccv2019.thecvf.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  7. Labeled Faces in the Wild creators and Anil Jain each honored for biometrics contributions | Biometric Update biometricupdate.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  8. Lessons from Exited Founders: Tamara Berg on Community, Hiring, and Fundraising michelleaguinis.substack.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  9. Allen School News Archive » Gray sheep, golden cows, and everything in between: Yejin Choi earns Longuet-Higgins Prize in computer vision for enabling more precise image captions via natural language generation news.cs.washington.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  10. Announcement of the 2022 ACL Test-of-Time Paper Award | ACL Member Portal aclweb.org. Checked 14 October 2026.