Vicente Ordóñez Román is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rice University where he leads the Vision, Language, and Learning Lab and a research cluster on Closed-loop Computer Vision as part of the Ken Kennedy Institute. His research lies at the intersection of Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. He is interested in how to develop machine learning models that can understand the real world through multiple modalities and can learn naturally from human guidance. He is generally interested in building efficient visual recognition models that can perform high-level perceptual tasks and doing so in a way that is fair, transparent, and interpretable.

From 2016-2021 he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. In the past he has also been an Amazon Visiting Academic at the Amazon AGI Foundations team and the Alexa AI team, a visiting professor at Adobe Research and visiting researcher at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2). He received his PhD in Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2015 advised by Prof. Tamara L. Berg.