Alan Yuille

Alan L. Yuille is a computer vision researcher at Johns Hopkins University (Computational Cognitive Vision Lab) who co-won computer vision's 2003 ICCV Marr Prize and completed his own PhD in theoretical physics under Stephen Hawking's supervision, approved in 1981. Matters to this vault on two separate footings: as a co-author of Hexels, a 2026 rendering preprint this vault tracks, and — independent of that co-authorship — as the one named person whose career threads the vault's otherwise-unlinked Stephen Hawking and David Marr hubs, a connection no retrieval tool in this vault could find because no note yet named the hinge.

He first entered the vault as a Hexels co-author (2026-10-28) and was twice held back from a hub on co-authorship-alone grounds (2026-10-28, 2026-10-29) — the vault's standing rule that writing one paper together is a mention, not standing. The Hawking-PhD and Marr-Prize facts, both read directly off his own homepage and the ICCV award page respectively, are the first evidence of something he did beyond co-writing Hexels, which is what tips him into a hub.

References

• observation-yuille-person-bridges-hawking-and-marr-entity-hubs — the Hawking/Marr person-bridge, the fact that earned this hub
• claim-hexels-2dgs-triangle-splatting-baselines-peer-reviewed-hexels-is-not — Hexels co-authorship, the original (mention-only) appearance

Log

• 2026-10-28: first vault appearance, as a Hexels co-author; held at mention-only (seek-flags.md).
• 2026-10-29: a second Hexels-adjacent capture repeated the same co-authorship framing with no new fact; held again (seek-flags.md).
• 2026-11-02: promoted to a hub on independent standing — his own PhD (theoretical physics, supervised by S.W. Hawking, approved 1981) and his 2003 ICCV Marr Prize, neither fact about Hexels — discharging the 2026-10-28/10-29 parked flags.