IIT Kanpur
Stanford University
Alexei A. EfrosProfessor · UC BerkeleyResearcher↗
Researcher · Academic · Executive
Jitendra Malik
UC BerkeleyProfessor of EECS
AmazonVP and Distinguished Scientist, Frontier AI & Robotics
🇮🇳🇺🇸 Indian-AmericanBorn 1960
Career & education
Current rolesUC Berkeley1996-presentProfessor of EECSAmazon2026-presentVP and Distinguished Scientist, Frontier AI & Robotics
UC Berkeley1996-presentAmazon2026-presentPreviously
Meta2018-2025Research Scientist Director and VP, Robotics ResearchUC Berkeley1991-1996Associate Professor
Meta2018-2025UC Berkeley1991-1996Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations376,514As of Nov 1, '26
citations+6,051Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
Selected contributions
Rich Feature Hierarchies for Accurate Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation
R-CNN identifies objects by applying neural networks to candidate image regions.
References
- R-CNN — original paperarxiv.org
Malik helped shape computer vision through methods for separating images into regions and recognising objects, including R-CNN.
- Jitendra Malik — current CVpeople.eecs.berkeley.edu
Amazon appointment from 2026 following Meta robotics research leadership.
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