Sanja Fidler

Sanja Fidler is a Slovenian-Canadian computer scientist. She is an associate professor at the University of Toronto and vice-president of artificial intelligence research at Nvidia, leading Nvidia's Spatial Intelligence Lab. She is also a co-founder of the Vector Institute and CIFAR AI Chair. Her research is in the areas of computer vision and artificial intelligence.

Education Fidler was born in Slovenia and attended the University of Ljubljana, where she received a BSc in Applied Mathematics in 2002 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2010. Following that she was a visiting scientist at UC Berkeley and a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Toronto.

Career

Prior to joining the University of Toronto, she was an assistant professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC). She became an assistant professor at the University of Toronto's St. George campus in 2014 before joining the Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the University of Toronto Mississauga in 2016, where she has held the role of associate professor since 2020.

In 2018, she was appointed a Director of AI at Nvidia, having been hired by Jensen Huang to lead its Toronto research lab.

Awards Among Fidler's awards are the Connaught New Researcher Award, an Nvidia Pioneers of AI Award, Amazon Academic Research Award, and Facebook Faculty Award. She served as Program Chair of ICCV 2021. She has also served as Area Chair of several machine learning and vision conferences including NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV.