Dr. Michael Bronstein was born in 1980. He received the B.Sc. summa cum laude from the Department of Electrical Engineering in 2002 and Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science, Technion in 2007. His main research interests are theoretical and computational methods in metric geometry and their application to problems in computer vision, patter recognition, shape analysis, computer graphics, image processing, and machine learning. He has authored over 50 publications in leading journals and conferences, over a dozen of patents and the book Numerical geometry of non-rigid shapes (published by Springer Verlag). His Erdős number is 4 and the h-index is 14. Highlights of his research were featured in CNN, SIAM News, and in the Abel lecture given in Oslo in honor of the 2009 Abel Prize laureate Prof. Mikhail Gromov. Michael Bronstein is the alumnus of the Technion Excellence Program and the Academy of Achievement, and a member of the IEEE. His research was recognized by numerous awards, including the Kasher prize (2002), Thomas Schwartz award (2002), Hershel Rich Technion Innovation award and the Gensler prize for research on face recognition (2003), the Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods Best Paper award (2005) and the Adams Fellowship (2005). Besides scientific awards, he received the Technion Humanities and Arts Department prize (2001) for the translation of Shakespearean sonnets into Italian. He was the co-chair of the Workshop on Non-rigid shapes and deformable image alignment (NORDIA) in 2008 and 2009. Michael Bronstein held visiting appointments at Politecnico di Milano (2008), Stanford university (2009), and INRIA (2009). In addition to academic activities, in 2004-2009 he served as a scientist and Vice President of video technology at the Silicon Valley start-up company Novafora Inc., leading a team of researchers and engineers developing Internet-scale computer vision and video analysis applications. |
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