Alexei "Alyosha" A. Efros (born 9 April 1975) is a Russian-American computer scientist and professor at

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. He has contributed to the field of

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, and his work has been referenced in ''

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Early life and education

Efros was born in

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in the

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. His father is Alexei L. Efros, then a physics professor at the

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. His family emigrated to the

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when he was 14 to accommodate his father's career and the family settled in

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in 1991. He graduated from the

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in 1997, and attended

for his

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, where he was advised by Jitendra Malik and graduated in 2003. He then spent a year as a research fellow at the

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, where he worked with Andrew Zisserman.

Career

Efros joined the faculty at

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, where he remained until 2013 when he joined the faculty of the

. He received a

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in 2008. He received the 2016 ACM Prize in Computing.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Efros, Alexei A. 1975 births Living people American computer scientists Carnegie Mellon University faculty Computer vision researchers Machine learning researchers Recipients of the ACM Prize in Computing Russian emigrants to the United States UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Utah alumni