Gregory Mori

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, 2004.
• Hon. B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Toronto, 1999.

Biography

Dr. Greg Mori was born in Vancouver and grew up in Richmond, BC. He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. He received an Hon. B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics with High Distinction from the University of Toronto in 1999. He spent one year (1997-1998) as an intern at Advanced Telecommunications Research (ATR) in Kyoto, Japan. After graduating from Berkeley, he returned home to Vancouver and is currently a Professor in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University.

He was a Visiting Scientist at Google in Mountain View, California in 2014-2015. He served as Director of the School of Computing Science from 2015-2018. He is now Senior Research Director for RBC's Borealis AI.

Dr. Mori conducts research in computer vision and machine learning, and teaches classes in data structures and programming, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and machine learning. Dr. Mori received the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (CIPPRS) Award for Research Excellence and Service in 2008. Dr. Mori received NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement awards in 2008 and 2015. He received the ICCV Helmholtz Prize in 2017. He served on the editorial boards of IJCV and T-PAMI, the top journals in computer vision, and on the organizing committees for CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, and ICLR, the top conferences in computer vision and machine learning. He was a Program Chair for CVPR 2020 and will be a General Chair for CVPR 2023. He is privileged to have worked with many excellent students while at SFU.