Jana Košecká is a Slovak computer scientist specializing in

computer vision Computer vision tasks include methods for image sensor, acquiring, Image processing, processing, Image analysis, analyzing, and understanding digital images, and extraction of high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical ...

. She is a professor of computer science at

George Mason University George Mason University (GMU) is a Public university, public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Located in Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C., the university is named in honor of George Mason, a Founding Father ...

. Previously, Košecká was a researcher at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley.

Education and career

Košecká earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering and computer science at the

Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU) () is the biggest and oldest university of technology in Slovakia. In the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities it was ranked in the first 150 in Computer Science, the only university in ...

; her master's thesis was on agricultural applications of artificial intelligence. After seeing a conference talk on robotics by Ruzena Bajcsy, she became interested in the subject and moved to the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing & Perception Laboratory at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

, where she completed her Ph.D. with Bajcsy as her

doctoral advisor A doctoral advisor (also dissertation director, dissertation advisor; or doctoral supervisor) is a member of a university faculty whose role is to guide graduate students who are candidates for a doctorate, helping them select coursework, as well ...

in 1996. Her dissertation was ''A Framework for Modeling and Verifying Visually Guided Agents: Design, Analysis and Experiments''. She held visiting positions at Google, and Nokia Research. Košecká spent three years doing postdoctoral research on the applications of computer vision to

self-driving car A self-driving car, also known as an autonomous car (AC), driverless car, robotic car or robo-car, is a car that is capable of operating with reduced or no human input. They are sometimes called robotaxis, though this term refers specifica ...

s at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

, before taking her present position as a faculty member at George Mason University. During her time at Berkeley, Košecká was a visiting scholar at Stanford University.

Book

With Yi Ma, Stefano Soatto, and S. Shankar Sastry, Košecká is the author of the book ''An Invitation to 3-D Vision: From Images to Geometric Models'' (Springer, 2004).

Recognition

With Ma, Soatto, and Shastry, Košecká won the 1999 Marr Prize for their paper "Euclidean reconstruction and reprojection up to subgroups". She was a keynote speaker at the 2018

International Conference on Robotics and Automation The IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) is an annual academic conference covering advances in robotics Robotics is the interdisciplinary study and practice of the design, construction, operation, and use of robo ...

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