Tamara Berg Explained

Workplaces:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Alma Mater:University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Thesis Title:Exploiting Words and Pictures
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Thesis Year:2007
Doctoral Advisor:David A. Forsyth
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Tamara Lee Berg is a tenured associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill[1] and a research scientist manager at Facebook AML/FAIR.

Education

Berg obtained her PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007 as a member of the Berkeley Computer Vision Group. She was an assistant professor at Stony Brook University from 2008 to 2013 before joining University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 2013.

Research

Berg's research interests are at the boundary of computer vision and natural language processing. In particular, she focuses on understanding the connections between vision and language, for example, to automatically identify people in news photographs, for generating natural language descriptions for images, or for recognising clothing and style.[2]

Selected awards and honours

Personal life

Berg is married to fellow computer vision researcher Alexander Berg.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: UNC - Tamara Berg . 10 March 2020.
  2. Web site: Website Tamara Berg . 11 March 2020.
  3. Web site: PAMI Mark Everingham Prize for Contributions to the Computer Vision Community . 10 March 2020.
  4. Web site: News Mark Everingham Prize 2019 . 10 March 2020.
  5. Web site: Labeled Faces in the Wild creators and Anil Jain each honored for biometrics contributions . 4 December 2019 . 10 March 2020.
  6. Web site: Marr Prize - ICCV Best Paper Award . 10 March 2020.
  7. Web site: NSF Awards . 10 March 2020.
  8. Web site: Berg . Tamara . Tamara L Berg . Tamara L Berg . 14 July 2022.