CJ Taylor

Dr. Taylor earned his A.B. degree in Electrical Computer and Systems Engineering from Harvard College in 1988 and both his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University in 1990 and 1994, respectively. He was recognized as the Jamaica Scholar in 1984, was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society at Harvard, and held a Harvard College Scholarship from 1986 to 1988. Following his doctoral studies, Dr. Taylor was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1994 to 1997. He joined the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania in September 1997. Dr. Taylor received an NSF CAREER award in 1998 and the Lindback Minority Junior Faculty Award in 2001. His research focuses on Computer Vision and Robotics, encompassing areas such as 3D model reconstruction from images, vision-guided robot navigation, and smart camera networks. He has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions of Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and participated in various conference organizing committees, including as Program Chair for the 2006 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and the 2013 3DV conference. In 2012, he was honored with the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania.