Summary
Eddy Ilg is a distinguished researcher and educator in AI and computer vision, currently a Full Professor at Technische Universität Nürnberg. He previously led the Computer Vision and Machine Perception Lab at Universität des Saarlandes and worked as a Senior Research Scientist at Facebook Reality Labs, bringing industry-scale perception research into academia. His training spans a BS in General Engineering Science from TU Hamburg, an MS in Computer Science with a specialization in computer vision and robotics from Freiburg, a summa cum laude PhD in Computer Vision from Freiburg, and an MS in AI and Multi-Agent Systems from the University of Southern California. His research vision is to develop AI systems that merge 3D spatial perception with abstract reasoning to enable more capable perception and decision-making. Based in Nuremberg, his career exemplifies a strong cross-pertilization between top German universities and international industry, underscoring leadership and impact in vision-based AI.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Specialization in AI and Multi-Agent Systems, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Specialization in AI and Multi-Agent Systems at University of Southern California
Summa cum laude, Summa cum laude at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau
Bachelor of Science - BS, General Engineering Science (Electrical, Mechanical and Computer Engineering), Bachelor of Science - BS, General Engineering Science (Electrical, Mechanical and Computer Engineering) at Technische Universität Hamburg