Ivan Laptev

Ivan Laptev is a Professor at MBZUAI on leave from INRIA Paris, and serves as Head of Research at VisionLabs. He holds a PhD from the Royal Institute of Technology (2004) and a Habilitation from École Normale Supérieure (2013). His research focuses on computer vision, robotics, and action recognition, with over 150 publications in top-tier venues. He has served as Program Chair for ICCV'23 and CVPR'18, and organized events like the INRIA summer schools and Machines Can See summits.

Key contributions include work on human action recognition, 3D reconstruction, and multimodal learning. His recent research emphasizes robotics manipulation, sim-to-real transfer, and large-scale video understanding. Awards include the ERC Starting Grant (2012) and the Helmholtz Prize (2017).

• Education: PhD (KTH, 2004), Habilitation (ENS, 2013)
• Grants: ERC Starting Grant (2012)
• Labs: Leads new lab at MBZUAI; Head of Research at VisionLabs