Prior to this he was a Senior Research Scientist at Disney Research Pittsburgh and an adjunct faculty at Carnegie Mellon University. He completed his Ph.D. at Brown University in 2008; received his B.Sc. degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from Boston University in 1999, his M.A. from Boston University in 1999, and his M.S. from Brown University in 2003. Leonid’s research interests lie in the areas of computer vision, machine learning, and computer graphics. Leonid’s research emphasis is on machine learning and statistical approaches for visual recognition, understanding, analytics and simulation. He has published more than 70 papers in venues and journals in these fields (including in PAMI, IJCV, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NIPS and ACM SIGGRAPH).