Ilona Demler

Hello! I'm a PhD student at Caltech advised by Pietro Perona and Georgia Gkioxari. Previously, I graduated from Harvard with a bachelor's degree in physics, where I worked with Michael Brenner. My graduate research is funded by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the Caltech EAS Chair Scholarship .

I'm interested in computer vision problems involving modeling the dynamic world. I'm currently working on dynamic human pose estimation and action analysis from video.

I'm best reachable via email at idemler at caltech dot edu.

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News

  • [May. 2025] ITTO was accepted to NeurIPS 2025!
  • [Sep. 2023] Started my Ph.D at Caltech working with Georgia Gkioxari and Pietro Perona.
  • [Sep. 2023] Named a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and Caltech EAS Chair Scholar.
  • [June. 2023] Presented my undergradate thesis on human pose estimation for neurological disease analysis at the AIFI summer workshop.
  • [May. 2023] Graduated with a major in physics and minor in computer science from Harvard.
  • [April. 2023] Awarded Carol Davis prize by Harvard Physics Department.

Publications
ITTO
 ITTO: Is This Tracker On? A Benchmark Protocol for Dynamic Tracking
Ilona Demler, Saumya Chauhan, Georgia Gkioxari
NeurIPS, 2025
project page / arXiv / code / dataset

Other Adventures
ITTO
 Understanding Others through Negotiation: A Guide for Students by Students
Lucas Woodley, Ilona Demler, Sarah Lightbody, Uriel Martinez, Clara Nevins, Indumathi Prakash, Daniel L. Shapiro
The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and the Harvard International Negotiation Program
book / book launch / video recording / Harvard negotation program


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