Presenter

William Freeman is the Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor of EECS at MIT and a member of CSAIL. Since 2015, he has also been a research manager at Google Research in Cambridge. His work spans mid-level vision, computational photography, and audio. He has received multiple outstanding paper and test-of-time awards in computer vision and machine learning. In 2020, he shared the Breakthrough Prize in Physics for his role in the Event Horizon Telescope project. A Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAI, he is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and received the 2019 PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award.