René Vidal

Rachleff University Professor

Electrical and Systems Engineering

Radiology

Computer and Information Science

Director of the Innovation in Data Engineering and Science (IDEAS) Initiative

Office: 3401 Walnut Street, 463C

Research Areas

  • Machine Learning
  • Computer Vision
  • Biomedical Data Science
  • Dynamical Systems
  • Robotics
  • Signal Processing

Awards

2022: Fellow of the ACM

2012: J.K. Aggarwal Prize

2012: Best Paper Award in Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Interventions

2011: Best Paper Award Finalist at the Conference on Decision and Control

2009: ONR Young Investigator Award

2009: Sloan Research Fellowship

2004: Sakrison Memorial Prize 

2003: Eli Jury Award

Projects/Papers

Tutorial on Recommendation with Generative Models (Gen-RecSys)
Frequency-Guided Posterior Sampling for Diffusion-Based Image Restoration
A Convex Relaxation Approach to Generalization Analysis for Parallel Positively Homogeneous Networks

Students

PhDs:

Tianjiao Ding

Vijay Giri

Yuyan Ge

Jinqi Luo (co-advised with Chris Callison-Burch)

Darshan Thaker

Kaleab Kinfu

Dimitris Dimos

Ho Huu Nghia Nguyen

Buyun Liang

Leandro Palma

Fengrui Tian