Noah Snavely

Noah Snavely is a professor of computer science at Cornell Tech and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. Snavely’s research interests are in computer vision and graphics, in particular, recovering structure from large photo collections for use in understanding and visualizing the world around us.

At Cornell Tech, Snavely’s work spans a diverse range of projects, from mapping technologies to immersive VR experiences. His recent research on synthesizing entire 3D worlds from text prompts has exciting real-world implications across various industries such as game design and filmmaking.

Snavely’s research group at Cornell Tech explores unstructured collections of online photos to develop new technology for modeling the world in 3D, analyzing images for computer graphics applications, and detecting trends in social media photos.

Snavely is the recipient of a PECASE, a Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, a SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award, and is a fellow of the ACM and the IEEE. He has been featured in news outlets such as the New York Times, New Scientist, and the MIT Technology Review.