Lyndon Kennedy is a research scientist at Yahoo! Labs in San Francisco, where he investigates techniques for automatically indexing, searching, and managing digital image and video collections. He received a Ph.D. degree in 2009 in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, where he conducted research in the Digital Video and Multimedia Lab under the direction of Prof. Shih-Fu Chang. He also holds B.S. (2003) and M.S. (2005) degrees, both in EE from Columbia University.

His research has received several awards and honors. He was co-author of a paper awarded the IBM Student Paper Award at ICIP in 2004. In 2006 and 2009, he was co-author of papers nominated for the Best Paper awards at ACM Multimedia and the ACM Workshop on Social Media, respectively. In 2007, he was invited as part of a group of 8 top senior Ph.D. students in the multimedia field to participate in the IBM Watson Emerging Leaders in Multimedia Workshop.