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David James Fleet

Professor

University of Toronto Scarborough, Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences

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  • Professor
    University of Toronto Scarborough, Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
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BIO

David Fleet is Cifar AI Chair and Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences Department at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He joined the University of Toronto in October, 2003. Prior to that David worked in the Digital Video Analysis and Perceptual Document Analysis Groups at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) for 4 years. Before that he was on faculty at Queen's University in Kingston. Prof. Fleet served as Associate Editor (2000-2003), then Associate Editor-in-Chief (2004-2008), and now sits on the Advisory Board of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). He has also served as Program Co-Chair of IEEE CVPR (2003), ECCV (2014), and as Area Chair for numerous vision and learning conferences (CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, NIPS, ICML). He was Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (2005-2019). He has been a faculty member of the Vector Institute since 2017 (and Associate Research Director, 2018-2019).

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MEDIA

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Professor
    University of Toronto Scarborough, Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Toronto, CanadaOct 2003 - present
  • Professor
    University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science, Toronto, CanadaOct 2003 - present
  • Professor and Chair
    University of Toronto Scarborough, Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Toronto, CanadaJul 2012 - Jun 2017
  • Associate Professor
    Queen's University, Department of Computing and Information Science, Cross-appointed to Psychology and Electrical Engineering, Kingston, CanadaJul 1995 - Dec 2002
  • Visiting Scholar
    Stanford University, Department of Psychology, Stanford, United StatesJul 1996 - Aug 1997
  • Visiting Scholar
    Stanford University, Department of Psychology, Stanford, United StatesJan 1994 - May 1994
  • Assistant Professor
    Queen's University, Department of Computing and Information Science, Cross-appointed to Psychology, Kingston, CanadaJul 1990 - Jun 1995

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Member of Research Staff and Area Manager (as of Feb, 2000)
    Palo Alto Research Center, Perceptual Document Analysis and Digital Video Analysis Groups, Palo Alto, United StatesJan 1999 - Sep 2003
  • Visiting Research Scientist
    Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Image Understanding Group, Palo Alto, United StatesJul 1996 - Aug 1997

DEGREES

  • Ph.D. Department of Computer Science
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada1991
  • M.Sc. Department of Computer Science
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada1984
  • B.Sc. Mathematics and Computer Science
    Queen's University, Kingston, Canada1982

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INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

  • Robotics Institute
  • PRiME (Precision Medicine Initiative)
  • Data Sciences Institute (DSI)