He is co-Director of the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab, Associate Director of Research at the Stanford-Toyota Center for AI Research and a Senior Research Scientist at the Stanford AI Lab since 2015. He was also an Associate Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Universidad del Norte (Colombia) between 2011 and 2019. His research interests are in computer vision and machine learning, with a focus on visual recognition and understanding of human actions and activities, objects, scenes, and events. He has served as Area Chair for the top computer vision conferences CVPR and ICCV. He is also a member of the AI Index Steering Committee and is the Curriculum Director for Stanford-AI4ALL. He is a recipient of a Google Faculty Research award (2015), the Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship (2012), a Google Research award (2011) and a Fulbright Fellowship (2005).
