Greg Mori

Greg Mori is a Professor at the School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University. He holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and an Hon. B.Sc. from the University of Toronto. His research focuses on computer vision and machine learning, particularly human pose estimation and activity recognition. He has served as Director of the School of Computing Science (2015–2018) and is now Senior Research Director at Borealis AI. Mori has contributed to methodologies like hidden Conditional Random Fields (hCRF), LDA variants, and deep networks. His work emphasizes features capturing visual intuition operationalized via machine learning.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley (2004)
• Hon. B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Toronto (1999)

Research Interests: Computer vision, machine learning, video analysis, human activity recognition, human pose estimation, pedestrian detection and tracking, object recognition. Awards:

• CIPPRS Research Excellence Award (2008)
• NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (2008, 2015)
• ICCV Helmholtz Prize (2017)
• Outstanding Reviewer Awards (ICCV 2009, CVPR 2010)

Grants & Service:

• Program Chair for CVPR 2020 and General Chair for CVPR 2023
• Editorial roles for IJCV and T-PAMI
• Organizing committee member for CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, and ICLR

Labs/Teams: Vision and Media Lab at Simon Fraser University, leading research in computer vision and machine learning applications.