Vladlen Koltun

Vladlen Koltun (born November 21, 1980) is a distinguished scientist at Apple Inc.

Early life and education
Koltun was born in, Ukraine and raised in Israel. He received a B.S. (magna cum laude) and a Ph.D. (with distinction) in computer science from in 2000 and 2002, respectively. In September 2002, Koltun began continuing his postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley.

Career
In July 2005, Koltun joined the faculty of Stanford University as assistant professor.

Adobe and Intel
In June 2013, Koltun joined Adobe Systems as a senior research scientist. In January 2015, he joined Intel as the director of their visual computing lab. In March 2018 he had become the senior principal researcher of their intelligent systems lab. By October 2019, he had become the Chief Scientist for Intelligent Systems at Intel.

Apple Inc.
In August 2021, Koltun Joined Apple as a distinguished scientist, where he is the process of building a new international research organization.