Walter Scheirer

 Walter J. Scheirer is the Dennis O. Doughty Collegiate Professor of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests within the field of computer science include artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, and digital humanities. His research has helped establish the areas of open set recognition and open world learning in computer vision. He is a global AI leader, serving as the Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TC PAMI) and as a board member of the Computer Vision Foundation. Throughout his career, Prof. Scheirer has prioritized service to the IEEE Computer Society in order to give back to the organization that has provided him with so much professional opportunity. Over the past two decades, he has been a key organizer of some of the computer society’s largest conferences, including the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), and the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV). He serves as a member-at-large on the Computer Society’s Technical & Conference Activities Board Executive Committee, and on various associated committees. In 2022, he was the recipient of the TC PAMI Mark Everingham Prize for outstanding long-term service to the computer vision community. Prof. Scheirer is also a recognized cultural critic and historian, commenting on the social context of emerging technologies from the realistic perspective of a technologist. His most recent book is A History of Fake Things on the Internet (Stanford University Press 2023).