He received the M.Sc. degree, with honors, in artificial intelligence, from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in 2007. He worked towards a Ph.D. jointly with the LEAR team of INRIA Grenoble and the Computer Vision team of Xerox Research Centre Europe. His PhD has received the AFRIF Thesis award 2012 for the best Ph.D. thesis in pattern recognition in France. He focuses on machine learning for 3D classification, with a keen interest on learning semantic representations for visual data. This is essential when learning from few, or even zero, examples. He has received numerous awards, including the ACM Multimedia Best Paper prize 2014, NWO Veni grant 2015, and ACM ICMR Best Paper prize 2016.