CEE PhD student Iro Armeni awarded Google PhD Fellowship
Iro Armeni is a PhD student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department's Sustainable Design and Construction Program who has been awarded a 2017 Google PhD Fellowship in Machine Perception. This honor was given to only 33 recipients from North America, Europe and the Middle East - two of which are from Stanford this year.
Her research is interdisciplinary between Civil Engineering and Computer Vision, focusing on understanding semantics in building life cycles and functional accordances using RGB and depth data. under the supervision of Martin Fischer (Civil and Environmental Engineering, CIFE) and Silvio Savarese (Computer Science Department, Computational Vision and Geometry Lab).
Prior to enrolling in PhD program at Stanford, Armeni received a MEng in Architecture and Digital Design (University of Tokyo-2011), a MSc in Computer Science (Ionian University-2013),and a Diploma in Architectural Engineering (National Technical University of Athens-2009). She has also worked as an architect and consultant for both private and public sector.
The Google PhD Fellowship Program was started in 2009 to recognize outstanding graduate students doing exceptional work in computer science and related research areas. Google created the PhD Fellowship program to recognize and support outstanding graduate students doing exceptional research in Computer Science and related disciplines. Now in its eighth year, the fellowship program has supported hundreds of future faculty, industry researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs.
