Education
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977, and was David Marr’s first Doctor of Philosophy student.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977, and was David Marr’s first Doctor of Philosophy student.
Ullman"s main research area is the study of vision processing by both humans and machines. Specifically, he focuses on object and facial recognition, and has made a number of key insights in this field, including with Christof Koch the idea of a visual saliency map in the mammalian visual system to regulate selective spatial attention. He is the author of several books on the topic of vision, including High-level vision: Object recognition and visual cognition.
Ullman is the former head of the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute.