Brian Kulis

Brian Kulis is Associate Professor at Boston University with appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Department of Computer Science, the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences, and the Division of Systems Engineering. He also is 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 Assistant Professor in Computer Science and in Statistics at Ohio State University, and prior to that was a Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley EECS. Professor Kulis’ 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 is also the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award in 2015, an MCD graduate fellowship from the University of Texas (2003-2007), and an Award of Excellence from the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Texas.