Shiry Ginosar is an Assistant Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC) and holds a part-time faculty position in the University of Chicago’s Department of Computer Science. She studies how artificial systems can learn about the world through observation and interaction. Her work draws on computer vision and machine learning, as well as ideas from psychology, neuroscience, and developmental science.

Shiry earned her B.Sc. from Carnegie Mellon University, where she worked with Luis von Ahn and Manuel Blum on human computation during her undergraduate studies and subsequently as a Visiting Scholar. She spent four years as a Senior Software Engineer at Endeca before pursuing her Ph.D. in Computer Science at UC Berkeley. At Berkeley, she worked in Bjoern Hartmann’s Human-Computer Interaction lab before joining the Computer Vision group. She completed her Ph.D. under the supervision of Alyosha Efros. She was then a Computing Innovation postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, advised by Jitendra Malik, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. She also spent about two years at Google DeepMind as a Visiting Faculty Researcher.

Shiry’s work has been covered by The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, and featured on PBS NOVA. It has been exhibited at the Israeli Design Museum and is part of the permanent collection of the Deutsches Museum. Her work on Everybody Dance Now and the associated patent led directly to Sway, a startup founded by her co-author and later acquired by Roblox.