Biography

Urs Niesen received the M.S. degree from the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2005 and the Ph.D. degree from the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2009. From 2009 to 2014 he was a member of technical staff at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent. From 2014 to 2022 he was with the Qualcomm NJ Research Center. Since 2022 he is a Computer Vision Engineer at the Meta Reality Labs in Zurich. He is the recipient of the 2016 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award.