Ross Girshick

Pioneer of modern object detection. Created the R-CNN family of algorithms (R-CNN, Fast R-CNN, Faster R-CNN) that revolutionized how computers detect objects in images. Co-created Mask R-CNN (ICCV 2017 Marr Prize / Best Paper) and led development of Detectron and the Segment Anything Model (SAM) at Meta FAIR. Over 500,000 citations across 100+ papers. Three-time PAMI Mark Everingham Prize winner (2017, 2021, 2023). Left Meta in 2023, spent time at Ai2, and co-founded Vercept.