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Serge Belongie

P1 Director and Professor, University of Copenhagen

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Serge is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen and head of the Pioneer Centre for AI.  Previously, he was the Andrew H. and Ann R. Tisch Professor of Computer Science at Cornell Tech where he also served as Associate Dean. He has also been a member of the Visiting Faculty program at Google. He is known for his contributions to the fields of computer vision and machine learning, specifically object recognition and image segmentation, and he has co-founded several startups in those areas. He also serves as a board member of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS).

Recent interests include research using language and visions models toward the development of technology that will allow everyday Internet users to protect themselves from misinformation.