Soheil Kolouri

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University

soheil.kolouri@vanderbilt.edu

Office
Featheringill-Jacobs Hall
Mail
400 24th Ave S Rm 254, Nashville, TN 37212

Soheil Kolouri is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, where he runs the Machine Intelligence and Neural Technologies (MINT) lab. Soheil is broadly interested in applied mathematics, machine learning, and computer vision. He also has a standing interest in computational optimal transport and geometry. Before joining Vanderbilt, Soheil was a research scientist and a principal investigator at HRL Laboratories, Malibu, CA. He was the PI on DARPA Learning with Less Labels (LwLL) and the Co-PI on DARPA Lifelong Learning Machines (L2M) programs. He obtained his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, where he received the Bertucci Fellowship Award for outstanding graduate students from the College of Engineering in 2014, and the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Biomedical Engineering Department in 2015.

Fun Fact: During his high school and college years, Soheil had a penchant for sketching caricatures of all his teachers and professors!