Felix Heide is an assistant professor at Princeton University, co-founder of the self-driving vehicle
startup Algolux, and head of AI at Torc Robotics. He is researching the theory and application of
computational imaging and computer vision systems. Exploring imaging, vision, and display systems
end-to-end, Felix's work lies at the intersection of optics, machine learning, optimization, computer
graphics, and computer vision. He received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. Felix
obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Siegen and was a postdoc at Stanford
University. His doctoral dissertation won the Alain Fournier Dissertation Award and
the SIGGRAPH outstanding doctoral dissertation award. He won the NSF CAREER Award 2021
and the Sony Young Faculty Award 2021. He was named a Packard Fellow in 2022 and a Sloan
Research Fellow in 2023. Felix was named SIGGRAPH New Significant Researcher in 2023. He co-
founded the autonomous driving startup Algolux, now part of Torc Robotics and Daimler Trucks,
building on academic research during his Ph.D. thesis. With over 150 employees and venture capital
of more than 30 Million USD, Algolux has shipped computer vision software to more than 1 Million
vehicles of European automotive manufacturers. His research is directly used by leading
autonomous vehicle programs.