George Cazenavette

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

Publications

Organizing

2025 – 2026

Curated Data for Efficient Learning (CDEL)

Lead organizer, ECCV 2026 in Malmö and ICCV 2025 in Honolulu

Fellowships

2019 – 2022

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Education

2022 – present

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

PhD in AI and decision making, Cambridge, Massachusetts

2019 – 2022

Carnegie Mellon University

MS in robotics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2015 – 2019

Louisiana Tech University

BS in computer science, BS in mathematics, BS in cyber engineering, Ruston, Louisiana

Research experience

2022 – present

Scene Representation Group

Research assistant at MIT CSAIL, advised by Vincent Sitzmann

2022 – present

Torralba Lab

Research assistant at MIT CSAIL, advised by Antonio Torralba

Summer 2023

Google

Research intern, Media Integrity Group

Summer 2022

Argo AI

Research intern in Pittsburgh, with Simon Lucey

2021 – 2022

Generative Intelligence Lab

Research assistant at Carnegie Mellon, advised by Jun-Yan Zhu

2019 – 2022

Computer Vision Lab

Research assistant at Carnegie Mellon, advised by Simon Lucey

Summer 2018

Interaction Lab

Research intern at USC, with Maja Matarić

Summers 2015, 2016

Innovative Imaging and Research

Research intern at Stennis Space Center, with Robert Ryan