Kyros Kutulakos received the BA degree in computer science from the University of Crete, Greece, in 1988 and the MS and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. He is currently a professor of computer science at the University of Toronto, where he has been since 2001. Following his dissertation work, he joined the University of Rochester, where he was a US National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow and later an assistant professor until 2001. While on sabbatical from the University of Toronto in the 2004-05 academic year, he held a visiting scholar position at the Visual Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia.

Prof. Kutulakos received a CAREER award from the US National Science Foundation in 2000, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2001, a Premier's Research Excellence Award from the government of Ontario in 2002, and four best paper prizes (a Best Paper Honorable Mention at the 2006 European Conference on Computer Vision; a David Marr Prize Honorable Mention in 2005; a David Marr Prize in 1999; and an Outstanding Paper Award at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference in 1994).

Prof. Kutulakos served as the Program Co-Chair of the 2003 Computer Vision and Pattern Conference and of the Workshop on Modeling and Analysis of Visual Scenes in 1999.