Juan Carlos Niebles

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Computer-vision researcher. Since 2021, Research Director at Salesforce Research and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Co-Director of the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab. Previously Senior Research Scientist at the Stanford AI Laboratory and Associate Director of Research at the Stanford–Toyota Center for AI Research (2015–2021).

Research focus: computer vision, machine learning, multimodal AI, autonomous agents. 100+ publications in top-tier conferences (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, IEEE TPAMI), serves as Area Chair for the major vision venues and Associate Editor for IEEE TPAMI.

Member of the AI Index Steering Committee at Stanford HAI; co-author across multiple editions including 2025 and 2026. Named one of Colombia’s Top 100 leaders in AI in 2025.

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• 2026-04-28-ai-index-report-2025 — co-author, 8th edition.
• 2026-04-30-ai-index-report-2026 — co-author, 9th edition.