Serge Belongie (born c. 1980) is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, where he also serves as the head of the Danish Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence.
He is known for his contributions to the fields of computer vision and machine learning, specifically object recognition and image segmentation, with his scientific research in these areas cited over 150,000 times according to Google Scholar.
[2] While an undergraduate student at California Institute of Technology, Belongie co-founded Digital Persona, Inc., which created what has been called "the world's first mass-market fingerprint identification device".
[1] He has also been the co-founder of image recognition startup Anchovi Labs (acquired by Dropbox, Inc. in 2012[5]), and computer vision/video analysis company Orpix, Inc.[6] He is also an Expert in Residence at LDV Capital.
In 2021, he moved to Denmark to become the director of the Danish Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence, and professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen.