Alexei "Alyosha" Efros is an associate 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 under 
Jitendra Malik and spent the following year as a post-doctoral fellow in 
Andrew Zisserman's group in Oxford, England. Alyosha is a recipient of 
CVPR Best Paper Award (2006), NSF CAREER award (2006), Sloan Fellowship 
(2008), Guggenheim Fellowship (2008), Okawa Grant (2008), Finmeccanica 
Career Development Chair (2010), SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher 
Award (2010), and ECCV Best Paper Honorable Mention (2010).