Raquel Urtasun
(Photo by Johnny Guatto)
Professor Raquel Urtasun and colleagues Andreas Geiger, Philip Lenz, and Christoph Stiller have been awarded the Mark Everingham Prize at the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision. The Everingham prize is awarded to a researcher, or a team of researchers, who have made a selfless contribution of significant benefit to other members of the computer vision community.
The team was awarded the prize for their work on the KITTI Vision Benchmark Suite, which provides real-world benchmarks with novel difficulties to the autonomous driving community. According to Urtasun, the benchmark suite has enabled a variety of breakthroughs in self-driving technology.
Urtasun is the founder and CEO of Waabi, an autonomous driving startup. The company’s initial round of funding, totaling more than $100 million, was one of the largest in Canadian history. She is also a co-founder of the Vector Institute for AI.
She is the recipient of an NSERC EWR Steacie Award, an NVIDIA Pioneers of AI Award, a Ministry of Education and Innovation Early Researcher Award, three Google Faculty Research Awards, an Amazon Faculty Research Award, two NVIDIA Pioneer Research Awards, a Connaught New Researcher Award, a Fallona Family Research Award and two Best Paper Runner up Prizes awarded at CVPR in 2013 and 2017.
With files from the U of T Robotics Institute.