Carl Vondrick is the YM Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and a member of the Columbia Core AI Lab. He is also a research scientist at Apple. His research studies computer vision, robotics, deep learning, multimodal learning, and their applications.

He was previously a research scientist at Google and a visiting researcher at Cruise. He received his PhD from MIT in 2017, advised by Antonio Torralba, and his BS from UC Irvine in 2011. His awards include the 2024 PAMI Young Researcher Award, the NSF CAREER Award and the Toyota Research Institute Young Faculty Award. He served as Senior Program Chair of ICLR in 2025 and General Chair in 2026, and sits on its board.