Raquel Urtasun
(Photo by Johnny Guatto)
Professor and colleagues Andreas Geiger, Philip Lenz, and Christoph Stiller have been awarded the . The Everingham prize is awarded to a researcher, or a team of researchers, who have made a selfless contribution of significant benefit to other members of the computer vision community.
The team was awarded the prize for their work on the , which provides real-world benchmarks with novel difficulties to the autonomous driving community. , the benchmark suite has enabled a variety of breakthroughs in self-driving technology.
Urtasun is the founder and CEO of Waabi, an autonomous driving startup. The company鈥檚 initial round of funding, totaling more than $100 million, was one of the largest in Canadian history. She is also a co-founder of the for AI.
She is the recipient of an NSERC EWR Steacie Award, an NVIDIA Pioneers of AI Award, a Ministry of Education and Innovation Early Researcher Award, three Google Faculty Research Awards, an Amazon Faculty Research Award, two NVIDIA Pioneer Research Awards, a Connaught New Researcher Award, a Fallona Family Research Award and two Best Paper Runner up Prizes awarded at CVPR in 2013 and 2017.
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