Lorenzo Torresani is a Professor and a President Joseph E. Aoun Chair at Northeastern University, Khoury College of Computer Sciences. He is the author of the first methods for 3D reconstruction of non-rigid objects and influential architectures for image and video analysis (e.g., Classemes, C3D, TimeSformer). His current research interests are in video-language models. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2005. In the past, he held a tenured Professor position at Dartmouth College and was a Research Director at Meta, Fundamental AI Research (FAIR). He also worked at Microsoft Research, Like.com, and Digital Persona. He is the recipient of multiple awards, including a CVPR Best Student Paper prize, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, a Google Faculty Research Award, three Facebook Faculty Awards, and a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award.