Biosketch Jana Kosecka is an Professor in the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University, where her research explores Computer Vision and Robotics. She focuses on 'seeing' systems engaged in autonomous tasks and the acquisition of static and dynamic models of environments by means of visual sensors and human-computer interaction. Prof. Kosecka has published over 100 publications in refereed journals and conferences and is a co-author of a monograph titled Invitation to 3D vision: From Images to Geometric Models. Prof. Kosecka is a chair of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee of Robot Perception, Associate Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and International Journal of Computer Vision, former editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. She has held visiting positions at Stanford University, Google, and Nokia Research. Prior to joining George Mason, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the EECS Department at University of California, Berkeley, affiliated with Robotics Laboratory and PATH. and earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Prof. Kosecka has received the Marr Prize in Computer Vision and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.