Dima Damen

Dima Damen is a Professor of Computer Vision at the School of Computer Science, University of Bristol, and leads the Machine Learning and Computer Vision Group. She also holds a position as Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. Her research focuses on egocentric vision, video understanding, and action recognition, with significant contributions to human routine modeling, hand-object interaction analysis, and multimodal learning from real-world environments.

• EPSRC Early Career Fellow (2020-2025)
• ELLIS Society Member
• Active in organizing workshops and challenges (e.g., EPIC, Ego4D, EgoVis)

Her recent work explores temporal discrimination in video captioning (It's Just Another Day), active memory representations for long egocentric videos (AMEGO), and hand-object interaction referral (HOI-Ref). She has co-authored 15+ articles in top venues like CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, and IJCV, with a focus on egocentric scene modeling, audio-visual binding, and cross-scenario generalization. Awards include the Best Paper at ACCV 2024 and recognition as an Outstanding Reviewer at CVPR 2020.

She has supervised numerous PhD students and postdocs, including Adriano Fragomeni, Jacob Chalk, Alexandros Stergiou, and others who now hold academic or industry roles. Her funded projects include VISUAL AI (EPSRC Programme Grant) and UMPIRE (EPSRC Early Career Fellowship), supporting innovations in egocentric dataset creation, real-time tracking, and industrial workflow assistance.