Serge Belongie

About

Serge Belongie is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, where he also serves as the head of the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence (P1). Previously, he was a professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, an Associate Dean at Cornell Tech, a member of the Visiting Faculty program at Google, and a professor of Computer Science & Engineering at UC San Diego. His research interests include Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Augmented Reality, and Human-in-the-Loop Computing. He is also a co-founder of several companies including Digital Persona and Anchovi Labs. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the MIT Technology Review “Innovators Under 35” Award, the Stibitz-Wilson Award, the Helmholtz Prize, the Everingham Prize, and the Koenderink Prize for fundamental contributions to the Computer Vision community. He is a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and serves on the board of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS).

News

Fall 2025/Winter 2026: We welcome applications for a PhD position on biodiversity monitoring with camera trap networks, jointly advised with Toke Thomas Høye at Aarhus University. See the official job post for further details. Deadline: 15-Jan-2026.
See the P1 Jobs page for additional open positions
Spring 2025: New national centre (CAISA) focused on responsible use of AI in society

Research

The Belongie Lab carries out research in Computer Vision and Machine Learning, including fine-grained analysis of multimodal data, self-supervised learning, 2D/3D generative models, and augmented reality. Our application areas include biodiversity studies and preventing the spread of misinformation in social media.

Teaching

Vision & Image Processing NDAK12002U, Block 2 (2022-present)

Service

General Chair, EurIPS 2025, Copenhagen

General Chair, ECCV 2026, Malmö

Contact

Please include Björg Birkholm Magnúsdóttir on meeting requests, BSc/MSc project proposals, PhD admissions, inquiries about postdoc positions, etc. Email: bjma@di.ku.dk / Phone: +45 22 21 31 13.

Last updated: October 2025