Silvio Savarese

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Silvio Savarese
Education California Institute of Technology (PhD)
OccupationsExecutive VP and chief scientist of AI research, Salesforce
Spouse Fei-Fei Li
Children2

Silvio Savarese is an Italian-American computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher. Since 2021, he has served as executive vice president and chief scientist of AI research at Salesforce, where he leads the development of generative AI platforms for customer relationship management. [1] In 2024, he was named to Time 's list of the 100 Most Influential People in AI. [1]

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Early life and education

Savarese and his father Gey developed the computer adventure game A Quiet Weekend in Capri . The game was released in Italy in May 2003 and in North America in 2004. [2] [3] The pair also developed a sequel, AnaCapri: The Dream, released in 2007. [4]

Savarese earned his degree from the University of Naples Federico II in Naples, Italy. [5] He subsequently earned his PhD in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology. [3]

Career

Savarese was an associate professor at the University of Michigan from 2008 to 2013, where he directed the Computer Vision Group and conducted research in 3D scene interpretation, robotics, and machine learning. He then became a tenured professor of computer science at Stanford University. [6] [7]

At Stanford, Savarese focused on the analysis and modeling of visual scenes from static images and video sequences. [8] His research enabled the design of machines capable of performing real-world visual tasks such as autonomous navigation and visual surveillance. [6] [8]

In 2011, Savarese co-authored the book Representations and Techniques for 3D Object Recognition & Scene Interpretation with Derek Hoiem. [9]

In 2018, Savarese developed JR-2, a socially aware robot capable of reading human intentions through neural networks. [5] [7]

Salesforce

In 2021, Salesforce hired Savarese as chief scientist. [10] His initial work was in leading development of Einstein GPT, and he now leads development for agentic AI platforms. [1]

Savarese and his team also developed CodeGen, an open source, large-scale language model that enables conversational AI programming, allowing users to write code through voice commands. [11] [12] [10]

Personal life

He is married to computer scientist, AI researcher, and Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li, with whom he shares two children. [13]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Gammon, Katherine (September 5, 2024). "Time100 AI 2024: Silvio Savarese". Time . Retrieved October 3, 2025.
  2. ↑ Osborne, Scott (May 17, 2006). "A Quiet Weekend in Capri Review". GameSpot . Retrieved October 4, 2025.
  3. 1 2 MacDonald, Laura (2003). "Capri Developer Interview". gameboomers.com. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
  4. ↑ "Shippin' Out September 3-7: Stranglehold, MOH: Airborne". GameSpot. September 4, 2007. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
  5. 1 2 "Silvio Savarese, l'italiano che insegna ai robot a essere gentili" [Silvio Savarese, the Italian Who Teaches Robots to Be Kind]. LiveUniCT (in Italian). March 25, 2018. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
  6. 1 2 "Silvio Savarese". Stanford University Online. Retrieved October 3, 2025.
  7. 1 2 Dormehl, Luke (September 21, 2018). "JackRabbot 2 is Stanford's friendly new campus-roaming social robot". Digital Trends. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
  8. 1 2 "Silvio Savarese receives NSF CAREER Award". Electrical and Computer Engineering. January 12, 2011. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
  9. ↑ "Silvio Savarese authors book in the field of Computer Vision". Electrical and Computer Engineering. September 7, 2011. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
  10. 1 2 "Salesforce Chief Scientist Silvio Savarese Is Developing AI-Enabled Voice-Driven Coding For Professionals And Novices | The Software Report". May 5, 2022. Retrieved October 4, 2025.
  11. ↑ Nijkamp, Erik; Pang, Bo; Hayashi, Hiroaki; Tu, Lifu; Wang, Huan; Zhou, Yingbo; Savarese, Silvio; Xiong, Caiming (February 27, 2023), CodeGen: An Open Large Language Model for Code with Multi-Turn Program Synthesis, arXiv: 2203.13474
  12. ↑ Goldman, Sharon (November 16, 2022). "Why Salesforce is betting on generative AI for conversational workflows". VentureBeat. Archived from the original on November 29, 2023. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
  13. ↑ Hempel, Jessi. "Fei-Fei Li's Quest to Make Machines Better for Humanity". Wired. ISSN   1059-1028 . Retrieved October 4, 2025.
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