MIT CSAIL Cambridge, Massachusetts Updated 2026

George Cazenavette

Machine Learning  ·  Vision & Graphics  ·  PhD Candidate

I am a PhD student at MIT CSAIL, where I study machine learning for vision and graphics. I am extremely fortunate to be co-advised by Vincent Sitzmann and Antonio Torralba.

Before MIT, I was part of the Master of Science in Robotics program at Carnegie Mellon, supported by an NSF fellowship. There I had the great pleasure of being advised by Simon Lucey (now director of the Australian Institute for Machine Learning) and Jun-Yan Zhu, and collaborating with Alexei Efros at UC Berkeley and Antonio Torralba at MIT.

Prior to CMU, I did my undergraduate studies at Louisiana Tech, completing degree programs in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Cyber Engineering. I am forever grateful to the professors who set me on this path, especially Mike O’Neal, Jonathan Walters, and Jean Gourd.

Portrait of George Cazenavette
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Selected Work

2017 One paper
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Education

2022 — Now

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

PhD in AI and Decision Making · Cambridge, Massachusetts

2019 — 2022

Carnegie Mellon University

M.S. in Robotics · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania NSF GRFP

2015 — 2019

Louisiana Tech University

B.S. Computer Science · B.S. Mathematics · B.S. Cyber Engineering · Ruston, Louisiana

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Fellowships

2019 — 2022

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Awarded by the NSF for graduate study in robotics.

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Research Experience

2022 — Now

Scene Representation Group

Research Assistant, MIT CSAIL · advised by Vincent Sitzmann

2022 — Now

Torralba Lab

Research Assistant, MIT CSAIL · advised by Antonio Torralba

Summer 2023

Google

Research Intern, Media Integrity Group

Summer 2022

Argo AI

Research Intern, Pittsburgh · with Simon Lucey

2021 — 2022

Generative Intelligence Lab

Research Assistant, Carnegie Mellon · advised by Jun-Yan Zhu

2019 — 2022

Computer Vision Lab

Research Assistant, Carnegie Mellon · advised by Simon Lucey

Summer 2018

Interaction Lab

Research Intern, USC · with Maja Matarić

Summers 2015, 2016

Innovative Imaging and Research

Research Intern, Stennis Space Center · with Robert Ryan