Antonio Torralba, three MIT alumni named 2025 ACM fellows | MIT News

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Antonio Torralba, Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, has been named to the 2025 cohort of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellows.
Torralba shares this honor with three MIT alumni: Eytan Adar ’97, MEng ’98; George Candea ’97, MEng ’98; and Gookwon Edward Suh SM ’01, PhD ’05.
His research focuses on computer vision, machine learning, and human visual perception, aiming to create systems that perceive the world similarly to humans.
Torralba has co-authored a comprehensive textbook, “Foundations of Computer Vision,” with Phillip Isola and William Freeman.
He has received numerous awards and recognitions for his contributions to the field, including the 2020 PAMI Mark Everingham Prize and an honorary doctoral degree from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya — BarcelonaTech (UPC) in 2022.
ACM Fellows are recognized for outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or for significant service to ACM and the broader computing community.

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