Sanja Fidler is co-founder and CEO of Veeda AI, building world models and simulation for physical AI. She is an associate professor at the University of Toronto and a co-founder and affiliated faculty member of the Vector Institute. Previously, she was NVIDIA's vice president of AI research and a research assistant professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. Her work spans computer vision, 3D deep learning, and generative models. She earned a PhD in computer science and a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics at the University of Ljubljana.
Co-founder and CEO
Associate professor since July 2020; previously assistant professor from January 2014.
Co-founder and Affiliated Faculty
Vice President of AI Research
Director of AI, 2018–2021; senior director, 2021–2022; vice president from March 2022.
Research Assistant Professor
Visiting Scientist
Research and Teaching Assistant
Teaching assistant, 2003–2007; graduate research assistant, 2008–2010.
PhD, Computer Science
BS, Applied Mathematics
