Prof. Stefan Roth, Ph.D.

Stefan Roth received the Diplom degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Mannheim, Germany in 2001. In 2003 he received the ScM degree in Computer Science from Brown University, and in 2007 the PhD degree in Computer Science from the same institution. Since 2007, he is on the faculty of Computer Science at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, where he is currently full professor (W3). His research interests include learning approaches to scene understanding, image generation, and motion estimation as well as explainable AI. He received several awards, including the Olympus-Prize 2010 of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM), the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2012 of the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Longuet-Higgins Prize 2020, as well as various paper awards. He is the recipient of two grants from the European Research Council (ERC), a Starting Grant in 2013 and a Consolidator Grant in 2020. He is a Fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) and directs both the ELLIS Unit at TU Darmstadt and the DAAD-funded Zuse School ELIZA. He serves as program chair of CVPR 2022 and ECCV 2024, as well as regularly as an area chair for CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV. He is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV). He also serves on the scientific councils & boards of TU Darmstadt, TU Graz, Austria, as well as Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland.