Jerod Weinman

Jerod Weinman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Grinnell College, with affiliations in Neuroscience. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, specializing in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and AI. His research focuses on visual learning, historical map analysis, and AI education. He has led NSF-funded projects on AI curriculum expansion and geospatial map processing. Notable awards include Best Paper (ICDAR 2017), Best Presentation (ICVS 2023), and an NSF grant for AI education.

Education: Ph.D. (UMass Amherst, 2008), M.S. (UMass Amherst, 2005), B.S. (Rose-Hulman, 2001). Collaborators include institutions like U. Copenhagen and Smith College. He advises undergraduates in projects like historical map OCR and self-supervised depth prediction. Recent work includes organizing ICDAR 2025 competitions and developing the PIPS instruction set for teaching computer architecture.

Key research areas span historical map text detection, multimodal learning, and AI applications. His lab focuses on integrating geospatial data with OCR, producing tools like MapTD and CatCorr. He has authored 40+ publications and is a Senior Member of IEEE/ACM.