Hadar Averbuch-Elor is an assistant professor of computer science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, based at Cornell Tech.
She arrives to Cornell Tech from Tel Aviv University, where she was an assistant professor in the School of Electrical Engineering. Prior to Tel Aviv University, she was a postdoctoral research scholar at Cornell Tech, working in the Cornell Graphics and Vision Group. She received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Tel Aviv University.
What is your academic focus?
Computer Vision and Computer Graphics.
Could you describe your research?
My research connects advances in machine learning with computational geometry over image collections and language to address the fundamental challenge of generating strong representations depicting the real-world. In particular, I study the principal questions of what knowledge multimodal representations comprise and what their limitations are. I also develop frameworks that integrate these multimodal representations into numerous downstream computer vision and graphics tasks such as 3D reconstruction, exploration, segmentation and editing.
What inspired you to pursue a career in this field?
I started working as a computer vision engineer as an undergrad and very quickly discovered my passion for it. I wanted to learn more, and soon after I graduated, I decided to pursue a graduate degree in the field.
Why Cornell?
I love how Cornell combines excellence in research and teaching with a real sense of community and belonging.
What are you most looking forward to as a Cornell faculty member?
I’m most looking forward to collaborating with the amazing researchers and students both in the Department of Computer Science, as well as in a wide range of other disciplines at Cornell.