DOCTORAL STUDIES
PhD
Leibniz University Hannover
Hannover, Germany
BIO
Laura
Leal-Taixé
I am Director of Research at NVIDIA, directing the Spatial Intelligence Lab (SIL).
I am also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto. From 2018 to 2022, I was a professor at TUM. Previously, I spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich and one year as a senior postdoctoral researcher in TUM’s Computer Vision Group.
I received the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award in 2017, the Google Faculty Award in 2021, and an ERC Starting Grant in 2022.
PublicationsRESEARCH
Publications
Explore the latest papers from the NVIDIA Spatial Intelligence Lab.
View SIL publicationsCAREER
Jobs
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Present
Director of Research
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Present
Adjunct Professor
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2021–2022
Principal Scientist
Argo AI
Germany
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2021–2022
Co-Director
Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML)
Germany
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2018–2022
Professor
Technical University of Munich
Germany
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2017–2018
Research Group Leader
Technical University of Munich
Germany
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2016–2017
Postdoctoral Researcher
Technical University of Munich
Germany
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2014–2016
Postdoctoral Researcher
ETH Zurich
Switzerland
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2012
Visiting Researcher
University of Michigan
USA
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2009–2013
PhD Student
Leibniz University Hannover
Germany
BACKGROUND
Education
UNDERGRADUATE & GRADUATE STUDIES
B.Sc. & M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering
Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)
Barcelona, Spain