Kris Kitani

Carnegie Mellon University Professor, Roblox Consultant, Startup Founder, Ex-Meta AI Researcher

Greater Pittsburgh Region

About

Computer vision research Specialties: Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Accessibility

Experience

  • Consultant at Roblox
    May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

  • Carnegie Mellon University (15 yrs 5 mos)
    • Associate Research Professor
      Jul 2019 - Present · 7 yrs

      Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Human-Robot Interaction. Physics-based egocentric pose estimation, activity & pose forecasting, vision-based collision avoidance, 3D object detection, 3D multi-object tracking, neural network compression, multi-agent imitation learning and modeling, camera calibration, co-manipulation, gaze prediction, deep generative models, multi-agent forecasting, synthetic data for domain adaptation, self-supervised learning, action recognition, anomaly detection, multi-modal localization, state estimation, non-line of sight imaging for human activity understanding, image and video accessibility on social media, automatic photo cropping, automatic photo acquisition with UAVs.

    • Assistant Research Professor
      Jul 2016 - Jun 2019 · 3 yrs

      Wearable cameras, First-person vision, Activity forecasting and prediction, Inverse optimal control, Pedestrian detection by synthesis, Vision for navigation for Blind people, Vision for upper-extremity stroke rehabilitation ... Deep Learning.

    • Systems Scientist
      Nov 2013 - Jun 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      Activity Forecasting

  • Cooperative Research Fellow at University of Tokyo
    Oct 2009 - Present · 16 yrs 9 mos

    Gazed-based activity analysis

  • AI Research Scientist at Meta
    Jan 2023 - Nov 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    SAM 3D Body Lead (https://github.com/facebookresearch/sam-3d-body) Ego-Exo4D Co-Lead (https://ego-exo4d-data.org) Ego4D Co-Lead (https://ego4d-data.org)

  • MSCV Director at Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science - Robotics Institute
    Jun 2018 - Jan 2023 · 4 yrs 8 mos

    Director of the Masters of Science in Computer Vision program