Yiannis Aloimonos (PhD 1987, Univ. of Rochester) is a Professor of Computational Vision and Intelligence at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Maryland at College Park and the Director of the Computer Vision Laboratory at the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). He received the Presidential Young Investigator Award (PECASE) for his work on Active Vision. He is interested in the integration of perception, action and cognition (bridging signals and symbols).