Simon Lucey is an associate research professor in the Robotics Institute
at Carnegie Mellon University
, where he is part of the Computer Vision Group, and leader of the CI2CV Lab. Before returning to CMU, Lucey was a Principle Research Scientist at the CSIRO (Australia's premiere government science organization) for 5 years. A central goal of Lucey's is to stay true, in terms of research and industry engagement, to the grand goals of computer vision as a scientific discipline. He believes these goals to be strongly correlated with the founding philosophy of the Robotics Institute itself (i.e. of deep understanding for systems that work).