Ziad Al-Halah

Ziad Al-Halah is an Assistant Professor in the Kahlert School of Computing at The University of Utah, where he has worked since January 2023. His academic journey includes a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin, research roles at NAVER (South Korea), Twitter (UK), and Disney Research (Pittsburgh), and a PhD from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (summa cum laude) in Germany.

• Current: Assistant Professor, University of Utah
• Education: PhD in Computer Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• Previous: Postdoc at UT Austin, researcher at NAVER, visiting researcher at Twitter and Disney Research

His research focuses on computer vision, artificial intelligence, and multimodal learning, with emphasis on transfer learning, zero-shot learning, and embodied AI. His work addresses problems like audio-visual navigation, view selection in instructional videos, and material-aware acoustic modeling.

Recent publications highlight his contributions to environment acoustic modeling (ICCV 2025, CVPR 2025), egocentric video analysis (CVPR 2024, CVPR 2023), and lifelong learning frameworks (Neural Networks 2023). He serves as Area Chair for CVPR 2025 and NeurIPS 2025.

• Scientific Awards: Outstanding Reviewer (NeurIPS 2024, CVPR 2023), Winner of 2020 Habitat Challenge
• Workshops: Organizer of CVFAD and EC3V at CVPR 2024