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Terry Boult

Also known as T. Boult, Terrance E. Boult, Terrance Boult

Terry Boult is a computer vision researcher whose OpenMax work helps deep networks reject images from unknown classes. He earned degrees at Columbia, served on its computer science faculty, founded Lehigh's CSE department and joined UCCS in 2003. At UCCS, his research focused on biometric security, statistical learning and privacy; he founded Securics in 2004 and launched the Bachelor of Innovation in 2007. He co-founded the Computer Vision Foundation, shared the 2014 PAMI Mark Everingham Prize with Ginger Boult, and became an IEEE Fellow in 2017. He is affiliated with UCCS and serves as program committee chair for the Firmware Testing and Analysis track at SPLASH/ISSTA in 2026.

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University of Colorado Colorado Springs
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Timeline

  1. 1983–1994

    Columbia degrees and faculty

    He earns a BS in applied mathematics in 1983, an MS in computer science in 1984 and a PhD in computer science in 1986 at Columbia University. He serves on Columbia's computer science faculty from 1986 to 1994 and is an associate professor from 1992 to 1994.

  2. 1994–2003

    Founding Lehigh's CSE department

    He moves to Lehigh in 1994 as an endowed professor and founding chairman of its Computer Science and Engineering department. He joins UCCS in 2003.

  3. 2003

    An endowed chair at UCCS

    He joins UCCS as the El Pomar Endowed Chair of Innovation and Security in 2003. His research focuses on biometric security, statistical learning and privacy.

  4. 2004–2007

    Securics and the Bachelor of Innovation

    He founds Securics in 2004 to commercialize privacy-preserving biometric technologies. In 2007, he launches UCCS's Bachelor of Innovation program, built around an innovation core and multidisciplinary study.

  5. 2011–2014

    Computer Vision Foundation and prize

    He co-founds the Computer Vision Foundation in 2011. In 2014, he and Ginger Boult share the PAMI Mark Everingham Prize for long-term service managing computer vision conferences and workshops.

  6. 2016

    OpenMax for open-set recognition

    In 2016, he coauthors the CVPR paper Towards Open Set Deep Networks with Abhijit Bendale. Their OpenMax layer estimates whether an input belongs to an unknown class and helps deep networks reject unfamiliar images.

  7. 2017

    An IEEE Fellowship

    He becomes an IEEE Fellow in 2017.

  8. As of October 2026

    UCCS affiliation and program chair

    He is affiliated with UCCS and serves as program committee chair for the Firmware Testing and Analysis track at SPLASH/ISSTA in 2026.

Career

  1. Since 2003University of Colorado Colorado SpringsEl Pomar Endowed Chair of Innovation and Security
  2. From 2011Computer Vision FoundationCo-founder
  3. From 2004SecuricsFounder
  4. 1994–2003Lehigh UniversityEndowed Professor and founding chairman of the Computer Science and Engineering department
  5. 1986–1994Columbia UniversityComputer science faculty, Associate Professor

Education

  1. 1986Columbia UniversityPhD in computer science
  2. 1984Columbia UniversityMS in computer science
  3. 1983Columbia UniversityBS in applied mathematics

From the biography.

  1. 11% of AI doctorate holders from 2010 to 2016 founded or led a company or lab by 10 years after graduationIncludes Terry Boult. We estimate how often AI doctorate holders founded or led a company or lab by 10 years after graduation, how waiting times compare between founders and top jobs, and which universities trained the most.
  2. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes Columbia University. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  3. Nonprofit roles are 2.3 times as common in AI safetyIncludes Columbia University. We estimate where people focused on safety, alignment and evaluation work. Nonprofit roles appear for 25.1% of safety people with known affiliations, compared with 11.0% in other areas.
  4. Universities had a net outflow of 2,068 moves in AI careersIncludes Columbia University. Our estimates of career flows and median h-index across universities and companies in AI, including the role of joint appointments and earlier academic jobs.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Terrance E. Boult vast.uccs.edu. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. Dr. Terrance Boult | College of Engineering and Applied Science eas.uccs.edu. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. Boult named CU Distinguished Professor – UCCS Communique communique.uccs.edu. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. Computer Vision Awards – The Computer Vision Foundation thecvf.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. Towards Open Set Deep Networks openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. Terrance E. Boult - SPLASH/ISSTA 2026 conf.researchr.org. Checked 20 October 2026.