Michael Bronstein - Biography#

Michael Bronstein received his PhD in Computer Science with distinction from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) in 2007. He joined the Department of Computing, Imperial College London as chaired Professor in 2018. Since 2010, he has held a professorship at USI Lugano, Switzerland. He has held visiting positions at Stanford, Harvard, MIT, TUM, and TAU and been affiliated with the Institutes for Advanced Study at TU Munich (as a Rudolf Diesel Fellow, 2017-2019) and Harvard (as a Radcliffe fellow, 2017-2018).

Dr. Bronstein's main expertise is in theoretical and computational geometric methods for data analysis and applications ranging from machine learning, computer vision and graphics, to geometry processing, biology, and social networks. Michael has authored over 150 papers and a book, and holds over 30 granted patents. He was awarded five ERC grants (Starting 2012, Consolidator 2016, and Proof of Concept 2016, 2018, 2019), two Google Faculty Research awards, two Amazon ML Research awards, Facebook Computational Social Science award, Dalle Molle prize, Royal Society Wolfson Merit award, and Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal. He was invited as a Young Scientist to the World Economic Forum, an honour bestowed on forty world’s leading scientists under the age of forty. Michael is a Fellow of IEEE, IAPR, and ELLIS, alumnus of the Technion Excellence Program and the Academy of Achievement, ACM Distinguished Speaker, and a member of the Young Academy of Europe.

Michael is also a serial entrepreneur and founder of multiple successful startups. His industrial track record includes technological leadership in Novafora, Videocites, Invision (acquired by Intel in 2012), and Fabula AI (acquired by Twitter in 2019). Following the acquisition of Fabula, he joined Twitter as Head of Graph Learning Research. He previously served as Principal Engineer at Intel Perceptual Computing (2012-2019) and was one of the key developers of the Intel RealSense 3D camera technology.