Yiannis Aloimonos

Yiannis Aloimonos is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, where he directs the Computer Vision Laboratory and co-directs the Perception and Robotics Group. He is best known for his foundational work in active perception, visual motion analysis, and the perception of human action, with applications spanning robotics, autonomous drones, and imitation learning. His recent research includes force-enhanced egocentric learning for physical action understanding, integrating sEMG-based wearable sensing with computer vision for robot learning from human demonstration. He was named an IEEE Fellow in 2025.