Alexei (Alyosha) Efros is an assistant professor at the Robotics Institute 
and the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His 
research is in the area of computer vision and computer graphics, 
especially at the intersection of the two. He is particularly interested 
in using data-driven techniques to tackle problems which are very hard to 
model parametrically but where large quantities of data are readily 
available. Alyosha received his PhD in 2003 from UC Berkeley and spent the 
following year as a post-doctoral fellow in Oxford, England. Alyosha is a 
recipient of CVPR Best Paper Award (2006), the NSF CAREER award (2006), 
the Sloan Fellowship (2008), the Guggenheim Fellowship (2008), and the 
Okawa Grant (2008).