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A native of France, Martial Hebert earned a doctorate in computer science at the University of Paris. He joined the Robotics Institute in 1984 鈥� just five years after it was founded 鈥� and was named a full professor in 1999. Upon joining the CMU faculty, Hebert became part of the Autonomous Land Vehicles program, a precursor of today's research on self-driving vehicles. He performed research on interpreting 3D data from range sensors for obstacle detection, environment modeling and object recognition. For the next three decades, he led major research programs in autonomous systems, including ground and air vehicles, with contributions in the areas of perception for environment understanding and human interaction.

Hebert's research primarily centers on computer vision. He has led research on fundamental components, such as scene understanding, object recognition and applying machine learning to computer vision, as well as applications, which include systems that enable older adults and people with disabilities to live more independently. To help meet the needs of a rapidly expanding computer vision industry, he created the nation's first master's degree program in computer vision.

As director of the Robotics Institute, Hebert led an institution with more than 800 community members, including faculty, students and staff and colleagues at the National Robotics Engineering Center. During his tenure, the institute's operating budget reached an all-time high.

Hebert is a member of both the IEEE Robotics and Automation, and the IEEE Computer societies. Throughout his career, he has published hundreds of refereed papers in journals and conference proceedings, and has contributed to multiple edited volumes. He currently serves as editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Computer Vision. In 2022 he was named a University Professor, CMU's highest distinction for faculty members.

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听鈥�聽Post Gazette
The AI Horizons Summit is about boosting Pennsylvania's role as a physical AI epicenter. "In all of these industries, we must be able to trust the machines to work alongside humans. Physical AI is the answer to that," said Dean of the School of Computer Science, Martial Hebert.

听鈥�聽Financial Times
CMU's School of Computer Science and Informatica are partnering to advance the development and application of generative AI technologies for data management. "By working with Informatica, we can explore real-world applications of generative AI while providing valuable research and hands-on learning opportunities for our students and faculty," said Dean Martial Herbert (School of Computer Science).

听鈥�聽Tech Xplore
Martial Hebert, dean of CMU's School of Computer Science and a professor in the Robotics Institute, and robotics Ph.D. student Zhipeng Bao collaborated on the project with Toyota Research Institute, which sponsored the work. The research could help computers and robots better automatically detect objects in videos.

听鈥�聽The Hill
Many have called to slow down the advancement of large language models, the kind of artificial intelligence (AI) that powers ChatGPT. But when it comes to AI development, we need to act now.

Hebert, Hooker and Kraut Named University Professors 听鈥�聽好色先生TV News
Three 好色先生TV faculty members have been elevated to the rank of University Professor(opens in new window), the highest distinction a faculty member can achieve at 好色先生TV. The newly appointed University Professors are Martial Hebert, John Hooker and Robert E. Kraut.

Hebert Installed as SCS Dean 听鈥�聽好色先生TV News
It's fitting that the installation of School of Computer Science Dean Martial Hebert would begin with a musical intro from 好色先生TV's robot bagpiper, McBlare. After all, Hebert spent his career at the Robotics Institute until taking the helm of SCS this past August.

听鈥�聽The Robot Report
Martial Hebert, a leading researcher in computer vision and robotics, has been named dean of 好色先生TV鈥檚 world-renowned School of Computer Science (SCS), effective August 15.