Juan C. Pérez

Researcher in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision

AI Research Scientist

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Hi! I'm Juan 

I'm a researcher in computer vision, and I'm currently working on generative AI for video generation.

I recently obtained my PhD in Computer Science under the supervision of Bernard Ghanem at KAUST, where I was part of the Image and Video Understanding Laboratory (IVUL) and the Artificial Intelligence Initiative (AII).

My research interests revolve broadly around Computer Vision. I strive for balancing breadth and depth in my research. Thus, I am keen on learning from other topics and fields, and broadening my collaboration circles. 

You can download my CV here.

Interests

Education

Short Biography

Before working at Meta, I did my PhD at KAUST under Bernard Ghanem. Before that, I was also an intern at KAUST, supervised by Ali Thabet and Bernard Ghanem. Even before that, I worked under Pablo Arbeláez (at BCV and CINFONIA, in Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) as a Graduate Research Assistant

Papers


Note: please refer to my Google Scholar for the most up-to-date list of papers.

Honors and awards

Outstanding Reviewer

I have received ten recognitions: CVPR’19, CVPR’20, NeurIPS’20, CVPR’21, ICCV’21, CVPR’22, ECCV’22, CVPR'23, CVPR'23, ECCV'24.

KAUST PhD Fellowship

I received this fellowship, which covers all my PhD studies (starting in 2021).

Best Engineering Graduation Test Score

Achieved top score in Colombia's graduation test for engineers (in 2016).

Academic Excellence Scholarship

I was awarded this scholarship twice by Uniandinos (in 2016 and 2017).

Others

Running

I try to run at least a couple times a week. I'm far from being a top runner, but I like to think perform decently.

Reading

Reading is one of my favorite hobbies, and I try to do it every day. Mostly, I like reading non-fiction. My favorite authors are psychologists, which leads me to believe I would also have liked to do research on the human mind.

Many books I've read have changed my view of the world. Next, I enlist some that were eye-opening for me: