Prof. Dr. Andreas Geiger

Andreas Geiger is a professor at the University of Tübingen and the Tübingen AI Center and head of the department of computer science. Prior to this, he was a visiting professor at ETH Zürich and a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. He studied at KIT, EPFL and MIT, and received his PhD degree in 2013 from KIT. His research interests are at the intersection of computer vision, machine learning and robotics. His work has been recognized with several prizes, including the Longuet-Higgins Prize, the Mark Everingham Prize, the IEEE PAMI Young Investigator Award, the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize and the German Pattern Recognition Award. In 2013, 2021 and 2024 he received the CVPR best paper and best paper runner-up awards. He also received the best paper award at GCPR 2015 and 3DV 2015 as well as the best student paper award at 3DV 2017. In 2019, he was awarded an ERC starting grant. He is an ELLIS fellow and coordinates the ELLIS PhD and PostDoc program. He regularly serves as area chair and associate editor for several computer vision conferences and journals including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, PAMI and IJCV. He maintains the KITTI and KITTI-360 benchmarks.