Shiry Ginosar - Homepage (original) (raw)
I am an Assistant Professor at TTIC and a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google DeepMind. I hold a part-time faculty appointment at the University of Chicago's CS department, and I am a member of the Global Research Centre for Diverse Intelligences.
Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing and a Computing Innovation postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, advised by Jitendra Malik. I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at UC Berkeley under the supervision of Alyosha Efros. Before joining the Computer Vision group, I was part of Bjoern Hartmann's Human-Computer Interaction lab at Berkeley. Earlier in my career, I was a Visiting Scholar at the CS Department of Carnegie Mellon University with Luis von Ahn and Manuel Blum in Human Computation. Between my academic roles, I spent four years at Endeca as a Senior Software Engineer.
I pioneered the fields of conditional video synthesis and data-driven artifical social intelligence, and was the first to develop visual data mining methods specifically designed to analyze human-centered historical data.
My research has been covered by The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, amongst others. My work has been featured on PBS NOVA, exhibited at the Israeli Design Museum and is part of the permanent collection of the Deutsches Museum. My research work inspired the founding of Sway, a startup acquired by Roblox.
News
I recently organized and chaired a Summer Cluster at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley on studying intelligence from a fundamental scientific viewpoint, bringing together top AI, Psychology, and Neuroscience researchers. Talk recordings:
Artificial Social Intelligence involves the data-driven predictive modeling of social situations. I initiated a series of workshops on this emerging area at leading computer vision conferences:
Recent Talks
- What is the right "token" for next-token visual prediction?
- Social behavior prediction from video observations.
Both at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, June 2024.
Selected Publications
See Google Scholar for the full list.
Teaching
Co-Teacher and GSI, Image Manipulation and Computational Photography, Fall 2018
GSI, Image Manipulation and Computational Photography, Fall 2014
PhD Student Mentorees
Evonne Ng (Now @ Facebook Reality Labs)
Jasmine Collins (Now @ Databricks)
Undergraduate and MA Researchers
I am actively looking for exceptional undergraduate students in their third year of the U Chicago CS program who have excelled in the Machine Learning and/or Computer Vision classes. If you are interested in a research position and think you are qualified, do send me a note!
Vivien Nguyen (Now @ Princeton)
Gefen Kohavi (Now @ Apple)
Caroline Mai Chan (Now @ MIT)
Kate Rakelly (PhD UC Berkeley)