Jean Ponce

Jean Ponce is a Professor of Computer Science at Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) in Paris and a Part-Time Global Distinguished Professor at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Center for Data Science (CDS). He previously served as Director of the ENS Computer Science Department (2011-2017) and held positions at Inria (2017-2022), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1998-2006), MIT, Stanford, and Inria (1982-1985).

• Academic Leadership: Scientific Director of PRAIRIE Interdisciplinary AI Research Institute in Paris
• Startup Involvement: Co-founder and CEO of Enhance Lab (2022)
• Editorial Roles: Senior Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Computer Vision (2019-2022)
• Conference Leadership: Chair of IEEE CVPR (1997,2000), ECCV (2008), and upcoming ICCV (2023)

Research Focus: Computer vision, machine learning, robotics, and AI with applications in exoplanet imaging, 3D reconstruction, and image quality assessment. His work bridges statistical learning and deep learning approaches.

Awards:

• IEEE Fellow (2003)
• ELLIS Fellow (2019)
• ERC Advanced Grant (2011)
• IEEE CVPR Longuet-Higgins Prizes (2016,2020)
• ICML Test-of-Time Award (2019)

Patents & Publications: Co-author of influential textbook Computer Vision: A Modern Approach (translated into Chinese, Japanese, Russian). Holds two US patents and one pending French patent. Google Scholar h-index of 78 with over 55,000 citations.