Trevor Darrell

Biography

Trevor Darrell received his bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988. While a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Darrell was a research assistant in the Media Lab, a teaching assistant at the Cold Spring Harbor Lab, and a visiting researcher at Stanford University. He received his master’s degree in 1991 and his doctorate in 1996. Darrell was then a research staff member at Interval Research Corporation from 1996 to 1999. During that time, Darrell returned to Stanford University as a visiting instructor in 1997. In 2000, he was appointed an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at MIT; in 2003, he was promoted to associate professor. In 2008, Darrell joined ICSI to establish and lead the Vision Group. He is also a professor in residence of UC Berkeley. He is an associate editor for the Artificial Intelligence Journal and the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. He was also an editor of the 2003 CACM Special Issue on Perceptive Multimodal Interfaces and served on the Information Science and Technology advisory board for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency from 2003 to 2008.

Research Interest

His interests include computer vision, machine learning, computer graphics, and perception-based human-computer interfaces.