Grant Van Horn recently completed his PhD in Computer Science at Caltech, advised by Pietro Perona. His research focuses on dataset collection, computer vision model development, and application deployment for fine-grained visual classification tasks. He has converted his graduate research work into two mobile apps, Merlin Bird ID and iNaturalist, that assist users in identifying wildlife. Prior to Caltech, Grant completed his MS in Computer Science at UCSD, advised by Serge Belongie.