David Kriegman, PhD

David J. Kriegman, Ph.D., is a Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of California, San Diego and an accomplished researcher and entrepreneur.

Kriegman’s core research is in computer vision and machine learning. Building on his patented computer vision research, Kriegman co-founded Photometria (aka TAAZ and Sight Commerce) and as CEO raised a Series A funding round; launched in seven months the initial B2C product taaz.com; drove engagement to a million monthly active users; and landed the first major B2B customers in media, brand and retail. The company’s photorealistic virtual makeover, hairstyle and color, and jewelry/accessory try-on were used by more than 100 million people on the web and mobile devices as well and in stores.

Kriegman also founded KBVT, which developed state-of-the-art face recognition for government customers. In 2014, Dropbox acquired KBVT. At Dropbox, Kriegman led a world-class machine learning team and managed the development and deployment of a portfolio of technologies including content understanding (including NLP), prediction on the Dropbox Machine Learning Platform, computer vision (image search, photodocument scanning) and search quality.

Kriegman’s papers have been cited over 45,000 times. He graduated with a B.S. from Princeton and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Computer Science.