Katerina Fragkiadaki

Katerina Fragkiadaki is a JPMorgan Chase Associate Professor of Computer Science in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University.3 She joined the university as an Assistant Professor in September 2016.2 Prior to her current position, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Google Research and UC Berkeley.2

Fragkiadaki received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2013, where she worked on motion perception, video segmentation, tracking, and body pose estimation.2 She was awarded the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in CIS at UPenn in 2013.2 Her undergraduate diploma is in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens.12

Her research focuses on computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Specifically, she works on:

1. Combining common sense reasoning with deep visuomotor learning
2. 3D scene understanding and visual parsing
3. Vision-language grounding
4. Learning object dynamics and manipulation policies1

Fragkiadaki has received several awards for her work, including an NSF CAREER award, AFOSR Young Investigator award, and a DARPA Young Investigator award.1 She has also been granted faculty research awards from companies such as Google, Amazon, and Sony.1

Her LinkedIn username is katerina-fragkiadaki-9790a029.