Peter Vajda is a Research Manager leading the Mobile Vision efforts at Facebook. Before joining Facebook, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in Professor Bernd Girod’s group in Stanford University, Stanford, USA. He was working on personalized multimedia system and mobile visual search. Peter completed his Ph.D. with Prof. Touradj Ebrahimi at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2012.