Gul Varol is a computer vision researcher in the IMAGINE team at Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford (VGG). She obtained her PhD from the WILLOW team of Inria Paris and Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS). Her thesis received PhD awards from ELLIS and AFRIF. She regularly serves as an Area Chair at major computer vision conferences, and has served as a Program Chair at ECCV'24. Her research interests cover vision and language applications, including video representation learning, human motion synthesis, and sign languages.

Prof. Dr. Laura Leal-Taixé is a Senior Research Manager at NVIDIA and also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, leading the Spatial Intelligence Lab. From 2018 until 2022, she was a tenure-track professor at TUM. Before that, she spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and a year as a senior postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Vision Group at the Technical University in Munich. She obtained her PhD from the Leibniz University of Hannover in Germany, spending a year as a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. She pursued B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in her native city of Barcelona. She went to Boston, USA to do her Masters Thesis at Northeastern University with a fellowship from the Vodafone foundation. She is a recipient of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award of 1.65 million euros in 2017, the Google Faculty Award in 2021, and the ERC Starting Grant in 2022. 

Anna Kukleva is a Research Scientist at Meta. She completed her PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics under Bernt Schiele, receiving the Otto-Hahn-Medal for an outstanding thesis, and was subsequently a postdoc at MPII within the VIA Center, a collaborative initiative with Google. Her research centers on image and multi-modal video recognition, with a focus on learning representations through methods with limited supervision. She has also co-organized multiple workshops and serves as Area Chair for venues including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR.