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Andrea Tagliasacchi is an associate professor at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada) where he holds the appointment of Visual Computing Research Chair within the school of computing science. He is also a part-time (20%) staff research scientist at Google DeepMind (Toronto, Canada), as well as an associate professor (status only) in the computer science department at the University of Toronto. Before joining SFU, he spent four wonderful years as a full-time researcher at Google (mentored by Paul Lalonde, Geoffrey Hinton, and David Fleet). Before joining Google, he was an assistant professor at the University of Victoria (2015-2017), where he held the Industrial Research Chair in 3D Sensing (jointly sponsored by Google and Intel). His alma mater include EPFL (postdoc) SFU (PhD, NSERC Alexander Graham Bell fellow) and Politecnico di Milano (MSc, gold medalist). Several of his papers have received best-paper award nominations at top-tier graphics and vision conferences, and he is the recipient of the 2015 SGP best paper award, the 2020 CVPR best student paper award, and the 2024 CVPR best paper award (honorable mention). His research focuses on 3D visual perception, which lies at the intersection of computer vision, computer graphics and machine learning.

Hiring graduate students (Sep. 2025 entry)

I am currently hiring graduate students to join my lab. If you want to push the boundary of computer vision with machine learning towards effective understanding of the 3D world, with applications to autonomous systems/robotics, inverse graphics, and augmented reality, please apply here the application deadline is mid-January 2025. To apply to my group, simply mention my name in the application system. Please only use andrea.tagliasacchi+hiring@sfu.ca for inquiries about graduate admissions (admission emails sent to other recipients are auto-deleted). I promise to read all emails, however, I am likely unable to reply to individual inquiries due to the volume.

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