Silvio Savarese

Silvio Savarese is an Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist at Salesforce Research and Adjunct Faculty at Stanford University. Previously, he was a tenured Associate Professor at Stanford, where he was appointed the inaugural Mindtree Faculty Scholar and served as Director of the SAIL-Toyota Center for AI Research (2016–2018). Prior to Stanford, he was an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 2005 and was a Beckman Institute Fellow at UIUC. ‎ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Savarese

Dr. Savarese addresses theoretical foundations and applications of AI, including machine learning, generative AI, and robotics. He has published over 350 articles in top-tier journals and served as Program Chair for CVPR 2020. He is the recipient of multiple Best Paper Awards (ICRA, CVPR), an NSF Career Award, and the James R. Croes Medal. He served as an Associate Editor for IEEE PAMI and has received two Google Research Awards. His work has been featured in the NYT, BBC, Financial Times, and PBS.

Before his research career took center stage, Dr. Savarese was a successful video game designer. Collaborating with his father, he co-developed games that were published and distributed internationally, reaching audiences in the United States, France, Russia, and Italy.