[06/2017] I am organizing the ActivityNet Large Scale Activity Recognition Challenge, a workshop to be held in conjunction with CVPR 2017. I also organized the 2016 edition at CVPR 2016.

[02/2015] I am the recipient of a Google Faculty Research Award. February 2015.

[08/2013] The President of Colombia invited me to the celebration of the UN International Youth Day. August 2013.

[05/2012] I was selected one of the seven 2012 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows, and the first second-generation recipient. 

[12/2011] I am the recipient of a Google Research Award. December 2011.

[06/2010] I would like to connect with other Latin Americans in Computer Vision.

[06/2010] I was involved in the organization of CVPR 2010 as a Volunteers Chair.

[12/2009] I was an organizer for BAVM2009: Bay Area Vision Meeting on Image and Video Understanding; Stanford, CA. August 14th, 2009. [Read More]

[07/2007] I was part of the UIUC-Princeton Team that won the First Place (software league) in the 1st Semantic Robot Vision Challenge at AAAI-07. You can visit our Team Page; we were featured in The Wire, the ECE Illinois Weekly Newsletter; and also in the Princeton CS Department news.