Sep 2026:
I will serve as Area Chair for CVPR 2027. Jun 2026:
I moved to AUTh (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki) via Greece’s brain-gain framework for ERC holders.
Jun 2026:
The team of my CV course ranks top-6 in UvA’s Science Faculty & is nominated for Education Award. Feb 2026:
Accepted paper at CVPR 2026 – Project RHINO (comming soon) – congrats Lixin et al.! Jan 2026:
Excited to receive a grant for my team to use the EuroHPC (JUPITER) cluster!
Dec 2025:
I will serve as Area Chair for ECCV 2026. Oct 2025:
Received a UTQ certificate (University Teaching Qualification – used by all Dutch universities).
Oct 2025:
Start serving in the ‘OC’ / ‘Program Committee’ for UvA’s BSc & MSc programs in AI (eff. 01/09/25).
Oct 2025:
I will serve as Lead Area Chair for CVPR 2026. Sep 2025:
I start co-teaching ‘Computer Vision 1’ for the ‘MSc in AI’, together with my colleague Martin Oswald. Jul 2025:
Promoted to Asst.Prof.1 & got tenure (eff. 1/6/25). Τhanks to my students, collaborators, & friends!
Jul 2025:
I am featured in UvA’s ’experts’ list for ‘Responsible Digital Transformations’, category ‘Creativity’! May 2025:
Excited to receive a grant for my team to use the EuroHPC (LEONARDO) cluster!
Mar 2025:
On the same day - Congrats Dr. Yuliang for your PhD defence! Welcome Alvaro on board for your PhD! Oct 2024:
Guest lecture (research overview) at the CV1 course (UvA, MSc in AI) of Dr. M. Oswald. Sep 2024:
New pre-print - SDFit recovers 3D object pose and shape from single images. Sep 2024:
I will serve as Area Chair for CVPR 2025. Aug 2024:
New pre-print - CWGrasp generates realistic 3D whole-body grasps. Aug 2024:
Received a personal unrestricted Google Research Gift. Thanks Google and Nikos! Aug 2024:
I serve as an Area Chair for 3DV 2025. Feb 2024:
I will give a talk @ ‘UvA Interdisciplinary Seminar on AI & Culture’. Date: Postponed for Fall 2024.
Jan 2024:
Accepted paper at IJCV (special issue) - InterCap. Congrats Yinghao et al.! Aug 2023:
Two BSc theses and a MSc thesis submitted (UvA). Congrats Benjamin, Roan & Romana!
Jul 2023:
Open PhD position at the UvA (Deadine is over).
Jun 2023:
Guest lecture (1h) on 3D perception of humans at UvA’s “Computer Vision II” course.
Apr 2023:
Congrats to Shashank & Omid for their distinctions in the Meta 2023 fellowship program! Feb 2023:
The New York Times (NYT) uses our ICON software in an interactive article for reconstructing key goals at the 2023 Super Bowl (American football league). Dec 2022:
Congratulations to Dr. Choutas for a successful PhD defence! Nov 2022:
The New York Times (NYT) uses our ICON software for reconstructing key goals of the 2022 FIFA World Cup: Technical article (NYT R&D team), Interactive articles for games 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Jul 2022:
Open PhD position at UvA (application deadline has passed).
Apr 2022:
Raised 140k EUR from BMBF for the 2022 project “Machine Learning for Interacting Human Avatars” (PS MEWE 103Z (BMBF/Tü AI)). Mar 2022:
Accepted papers at CVPR 2022: GOAL (congrats Omid et al.), ICON (congrats Yuliang et al.), SHAPY (congrats Lea and Vassilis et al.) and MOVER (congrats Hongwei et al.).
Oct 2021:
Accepted paper at 3DV 2021: PIXIE. Congrats Yao & Vassilis et al.!
Oct 2021:
Talk at the University of Bristol, Department of Computer Science.
Sep 2021:
Talk at the University of Amsterdam, Informatics Institute.
Aug 2021:
I serve as an Area Chair for 3DV 2021.
Jun 2021:
Talk at Microsot Mixed Reality & AI Lab.
Jun 2021:
We organize the full-day tutorial “SMPL made Simple” at CVPR 2021.
May 2021:
Outstanding Reviewer award for CVPR 2021 (top 20.3%).
Mar 2021:
Talk at Imperial College London, Intelligent Systems and Networks Group.
Mar 2021:
Accepted paper at CVPR 2021: POSA. Congrats Mohamed et al.!
Feb 2021:
Talk at Dima Damen’s computer vision group (\in VILab, Uni. of Bristol).
Oct 2020:
Outstanding Reviewer award for ECCV 2020 (top 7.6%).
Jul 2020:
Accepted papers at ECCV 2020: GRAB & ExPose. Congrats Omid et al. and Vassilis et al.!
Jun 2020:
Outstanding Reviewer award for CVPR 2020 (top 3.9%).
Jan 2020:
Accepted paper at IJCV: “Learning Multi-Human Optical Flow”. Congrats Anurag and David et al.!
Sep 2019:
Successfully raised 195k EUR from BMBF for the 3-year project “Robust 3D Hand-Object Interaction” (PS MEWE 103Z (BMBF/Tü AI)), for 1 PhD-candidate co-advised with M. J. Black.
Sep 2019:
Outstanding Reviewer award for ICCV 2019 (top 3.6%).
Jul 2019:
Accepted paper at ICCV 2019: PROX. Congrats Mohamed et al.!
Jul 2019:
Accepted paper at GCPR 2019: “Learning to Train with Synthetic Humans”. Congrats David et al.!
Mar 2019:
Accepted papers at CVPR 2019: ObMan & SMPLify-X. Congrats Yana, George, Vassilis et al.!
Oct 2018:
Continuing as Research-Scientist at PS/MPI-IS.
Sep 2018:
Accepted paper at SIGA 2017: MANO and SMPL+H. Congrats Javier et al.!
Jan 2017:
PhD defense at Uni-Bonn. Thanks Juergen!
Oct 2016:
Starting as Post-Doc at PS/MPI-IS.