Svetlana Lazebnik[a] (born 1979)[1] is a Ukrainian-American researcher in computer vision who works as a professor of computer science and Willett Faculty Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
[1] She majored in computer science at DePaul University, minoring in mathematics and graduating with the highest honors in 2000.
She completed her Ph.D. in 2006 at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, with the dissertation Local, Semi-Local and Global Models for Texture, Object and Scene Recognition supervised by Jean Ponce.
[5] Lazebnik was named an IEEE Fellow in 2021, "for contributions to computer vision".
[3][6] With Cordelia Schmid and Jean Ponce, she won the Longuet-Higgins Prize in 2016 for the best work in computer vision from ten years earlier, for their work on spatial pyramid matching.