Alan Yuille is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Computational Cognitive Science at the Johns Hopkins University. He also directs the research group on Computational Cognition, Vision, and Learning and is affiliated with the Center for Brains, Minds and Machines and the NSF Expeditions-in-Computing project Visual Cortex on Silicon.
His research interests include computational models of vision, mathematical models of cognition, medical image analysis, and artificial intelligence and neural networks.
Yuille received his BA in mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 1976 and his PhD in theoretical physics, supervised by Stephen Hawking, in 1981. Yuille joined the Johns Hopkins University faculty in 2016.