Professor Pascal Fua is an internationally renowned expert in computer vision and artificial intelligence. He is currently a professor in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he leads the Computer Vision Laboratory (CVLab). He received an engineering degree from École Polytechnique, Paris, in 1984, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Orsay (now part of Université Paris-Saclay) in 1989. Before joining EPFL in 1996, Professor Fua worked as a computer scientist at SRI International (USA) and at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (France).In 2012, he was named an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to the theory and practice of three-dimensional shape recovery from images and video sequences. Professor Fua’s research focuses on 3D shape modeling, motion recovery from images and video, analysis of microscopy images, and augmented reality. He is dedicated to developing innovative methods for recovering 3D information from images and videos. He has made significant contributions to 3D reconstruction, human pose estimation, image keypoint detection and matching, and multi-object tracking.

Professor Fua has published over 800 academic papers, and his work has been cited more than 83,000 times globally, with an h-index of 125, demonstrating his profound impact in the field of computer vision. He has also made outstanding contributions to academic service, having served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), and frequently acting as a program committee member, area chair, or general chair for major international conferences such as CVPR, ECCV, and ICCV.In terms of research funding, Professor Fua has received several prestigious grants from the European Research Council (ERC), including an Advanced Grant in 2009 and two Proof of Concept Grants in 2013 and 2018, supporting his work in frontier areas such as 3D vision reconstruction and human-computer interaction. He received the Best Paper Award at CVPR (2005) with J. Pilet and V. Lepetit, the ECCV Koenderink Prize for Fundamental Contributions in Computer Vision (2020) with M. Calonder, V. Lepetit, and C. Strecha, and the Best Paper Award at AIAA in Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) (2024) with Z. Wei, A. Yang, M. Bauerheim, and R. Liem.In addition, Professor Fua is a founder of several technology companies, including Pix4D, which focuses on 2D and 3D environment reconstruction; PlayfulVision, a sports data analytics company acquired by Genius Sports; and Neural Concept, which specializes in engineering design optimization. These companies apply his research to a wide range of applications, including drone image modeling, sports video analytics, and industrial design.With his outstanding contributions to the fields of computer vision and artificial intelligence, Professor Fua enjoys a distinguished reputation in the international academic community and is a leading figure in advancing the state of the art.