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Computer Vision Expert Wins Prestigious Frontiers of Science Award

Hao Su

August 27, 2025--Hao Su, a faculty member in the UC San Diego Department of Computer Science, received a prestigious Frontiers of Science Award, which honors outstanding research in the fields of theoretical and computer information science, physics and mathematics. The award specifically recognizes work done over the past 10 years. 

Su received the award at the 2025 International Congress for Basic Science, which took place in July in Beijing, China. 

Su was recognized for a paper presented at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in 2017. The work, titled PointNet: Deep learning on point sets for 3D classification and segmentation, has now been cited more than 20,000 times. It introduced the core methods now used for 3D deep learning across vision, graphics and geometric computing. 

It is one of the three papers recognized this year in the area of graphics and geometric computing and one of 26 recognized in computer science. 

Su also received earlier this year the PAMI Young Research Award, the highest early career honor in computer vision. He shared this award with UC San Diego computer science alumnus Saining Xie, now at New York University. 

Su’s research focuses on the theories and technologies to build autonomous systems that can actively and continuously learn in the physical world, specifically computer vision and computer graphics, machine learning and generative AI, as well as robotics. 

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