Draft:Antonio Torralba

Antonio Torralba is a Spanish-American computer science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Principal Investigator at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

His research mainly focuses on the areas of computer vision, machine learning and human visual perception. He was previously the inaugural director of MIT’s Quest for Intelligence and the director of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab.

In 2021 he was elected a fellow to the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence for “significant contributions to scene recognition, large-scale visual datasets, and transfer learning”.

Torralba’s research has been cited more than 100,000 times to date. Among his projects is the Places dataset, a repository of more than 10 million photographs of different scenes.

In 2024 he co-authored the textbook Foundations of Computer Vision with CSAIL colleagues Phillip Isola and William T. Freeman.