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Steve Seitz is a professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington and co-leads the UW Reality Lab. He is a distinguished scientist at Google, where he has led numerous projects focused on Telepresence, Virtual Reality, Maps, Photos, and Computational Photography. Seitz earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1997 and subsequently worked as an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University before joining the faculty at the University of Washington in 2000. He has co-authored papers that have won prestigious awards such as the David Marr Prize (twice) and the 2015 ICCV and CVPR paper award, as well as the Helmholtz Prize at ICCV in 2019. He has received several accolades including the NSF Career Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and is an IEEE Fellow and ACM Fellow. His work on Photo Tourism, together with Noah Snavely and Rick Szeliski, formed the basis for Microsoft’s Photosynth technology. He was part of teams at Google that developed Project Starline, Jump, VR180, Cardboard Camera, Lens Blur, Photo Tours, and Face Movies.
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