Derek Hoiem Author

Derek Hoiem is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Before joining the UIUC faculty in 2009, Derek completed his Ph.D. in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University in 2007 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Beckman Institute from 2007-2008. Derek's work on scene understanding and object recognition was recognized with a 2006 CVPR Best Paper award, a 2008 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award honorable mention, and a 2011 NSF CAREER award.