He received his PhD from ETHZ in 2004 for his work on image correspondence. Prof. Ferrari was a post-doctoral researcher at INRIA Grenoble in 2005-2006 and the University of Oxford in 2006-2008. In 2008 he was awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation Professorship grant for outstanding young researchers. Prof. Ferrari is the author of forty technical publications, most of them in the highest ranked conferences and journals in computer vision and machine learning. He will be an Area Chair for the International Conference on Computer Vision 2011. His current research interests are in visual learning, human pose estimation, and image-text correspondences.