Iddo Drori
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Director of MS in AI
Co-Director of MS Admissions
Boston University, Department of Computer Science (practice) idrori@bu.edu, idrori@cs.bu.edu
Columbia University, Department of Computer Science (adjunct) idrori@cs.columbia.edu
My research focuses on artificial general intelligence, computer vision, and machine learning for education and climate science.
If you are interested in working together in my group on AGI then please send me an email about your background and research interests.
Textbook
The Science of Deep Learning published by Cambridge University Press is available on Amazon.
Recent Activity
Research 🎓 AI Innovation competition @FG25, 5/2025
Teaching 🧠 Artificial General Intelligence, Spring 2025
Service 📝 ICML 2024, 2025, NeurIPS D&B 2023, 2024: Senior area chair; ECCV 2024: Area chair; ICLR, CVPR 2025: reviewer
Press This year’s Nobel Prizes point to Artificial Intelligence’s role in future of scientific research, 10/2024
Selected Research
⚔ ReviewerArena: Evaluate LLM reviewer quality based on preferences by direct and anonymous comparison of reviews.
🏛 Machine Learning for Education: Can a machine solve, explain, and generate university-level mathematics and STEM courses? Our latest research published in PNAS and featured by MIT news demonstrates that a neural network solves, explains, and generates university math problems by program synthesis and few-shot learning at human level.
🌎 Machine Learning for Climate Science:
In the spirit of MIT's leading efforts to take action against climate change for a better world, we've published multidisciplinary work in Nature Scientific Reports on computer vision methods for tracking turbulent structures in the plasma of a fusion reactor, and on predicting the Atlantic Multi-decadal Variability and ocean biogeochemistry, awarded best paper: pathway to impact at NeurIPS CCAI.
🚘 Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving: Can we accurately predict trajectories and learn to drive? we've won the ICCV learning to drive challenge and continuously improve performance; society will accept autonomous vehicles once they are orders of magnitude safer than humans.
Selected Awards
🏅 NeurIPS 2022 open-ended learning competitions: MineRL BASALT and Neural MMO
🌎 CCAI NeurIPS 2021 Best Paper Award Winner
🏆 FG 2021 Competition Winner, Kinship Verification Challenge
🥇 ACML 2021 Best Student Paper Award Winner
🚘 ICCV 2019 Competition Winner, Learning to Drive Challenge
Boston University
Department of Computer Science
Faculty member, Associate Professor (of practice)
Program Director of Masters in AI
Center for Computing and Data Sciences
Department of Computer Science
665 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
cs-people.bu.edu/idrori
idrori@bu.edu, idrori@cs.bu.edu
Columbia University
Department of Computer Science
I'm Adjunct Associate Professor since 2017
School of Engineering and Applied Science
500 W 120th Street, New York, NY 10027
www.cs.columbia.edu/~idrori
idrori@cs.columbia.edu
Cornell University
School of Operations Research & Information Engineering
I was Visiting Associate Professor at Cornell University.
Cambridge University Press, 2022.