Sanja Fidler

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Vice President of AI Research at Nvidia Corporation

Head of Spatial Intelligence Lab (SIL)

Co-founder of Vector Institute

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Building an Intelligent Robot | Sanja Fidler | TEDxUofT

Jul 21, 2017

How do we teach computers how to understand the world around them? Sanja gives us an overview of the current trends in computer vision and the challenges we face in creating a truly intelligent machine, as well as the amusing results of some AI mishaps.

Sanja Fidler is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Computer Science.Prof. Fidler is interested in computer recognition of human dimensions, like the ability for a program to look at a photo and not only recognize objects in the image but also subtleties and characteristics that a human would pick up.

 

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Sanja Fidler on the AI that can rebuild the world in 3D

Apr 4, 2025

At NVIDIA GTC 2025, I sat down with Sanja Fidler, VP of AI Research at NVIDIA and head of the newly rebranded Spatial Intelligence Lab. From groundbreaking research in Radiance Fields and 3D Gaussian Splatting to real-time simulation systems for autonomous vehicles and robotics, her team is redefining what’s possible in computer vision and neural reconstruction.

We discuss:
How NeRFs changed the way we capture and interact with reality
The future of real-time 3D imaging and reconstruction
Gaussian Ray Tracing and the 3D Gaussian Unscented Transform
Why multimodal sensor ingestion is critical for simulation
Industrial applications—from AVs to massive-scale world reconstruction
What’s next for Cosmos, fVDB, and generative 3D systems