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Dima Damen

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Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
📍 Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Dima Damen is a Professor of Computer Vision at the University of Bristol and a Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. Her research focuses on understanding human actions and object interactions from a first-person viewpoint, a field known as Egocentric Vision. She holds a PhD from the University of Leeds.

Passionate about advancing her field, Dima frequently delivers keynote addresses and tutorials at major international conferences. She is dedicated to mentoring the next generation of researchers, supervising numerous PhD students and postdoctoral researchers, and actively organizes workshops to foster academic collaboration and innovation.

She is a co-creator of EPIC-KITCHENS, a seminal and one of the largest datasets in egocentric vision, which has become a key benchmark for the global research community.

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Current Role
Senior Research Scientist
Location
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Personality Overview

How Dima shows up

Systematic
Not Easily Convinced
Price-Sensitive

They prefer to analyze every situation thoroughly.
 They generally do not appreciate an overfriendly approach and prefer to stay to-the-point. They are more likely than others to negotiate on pricing and terms.

Priorities

Topics Dima cares about

Egocentric Vision
This is her primary research area. She leads the EPIC-KITCHENS dataset project and organizes annual workshops on the topic at major computer vision conferences.
Video Understanding
Her work focuses on analyzing video to understand actions, object interactions, and activities. She recently gave a tutorial on "Video Understanding *out of the frame*. "
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Career

Work history

9-2023
Senior Research Scientist
Google DeepMind
University of Bristol
15 yrs 10 mos
9-2003 - 8-2006
Lecturer
Petra University
9-2003 - 2-2004
Part Time Lecturer
Jordan University
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Education
2006 - 2009
PhD
University of Leeds
2002 - 2003
MSc
University of Leeds
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Calculativeness (C)

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