Brian Kulis
Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Brian Kulis is an associate professor at Boston University, with appointments in the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Department of Computer Science, and the Division of Systems Engineering. From 2019-2023, he was also an Amazon Scholar, working with the Alexa team.
Previously, he was the Peter J. Levine Career Development assistant professor at Boston University. Before joining Boston University, he was an assistant professor in Computer Science and in Statistics at Ohio State University, and prior to that was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley EECS. His research focuses on machine learning, statistics, computer vision, and large-scale optimization. He obtained his PhD in computer science from the University of Texas in 2008, and his BA degree from Cornell University in computer science and mathematics in 2003.
For his research, he has won three best paper awards at top-tier conferences: two at the International Conference on Machine Learning (in 2005 and 2007) and one at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (in 2008). He was also the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award in 2015.