Dr. Michael Bronstein

Biography

Michael Bronstein received his Ph.D. degree from the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology in 2007. He has held visiting appointments at Stanford University, MIT, Harvard University, and Tel Aviv University, and is affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study at the Technical University of Munich as a Rudolf Diesel Fellow (2017–2019), a Harvard Radcliffe Fellow (2017–2018), and Princeton (2020). He is a professor at USI Faculty of Informatics and the Institute for Computational Science, and also holds a chair in Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition at Imperial College London, where he is the head of the Graph Learning Research group. Bronstein's main research expertise includes theoretical computational methods for geometric data analysis, and he has published extensively in leading journals and conferences. He is credited as a pioneer in geometric deep learning, which generalizes machine learning methods for graph-structured data. Michael has received multiple awards, including five ERC grants, Google Faculty Research Awards, and the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IAPR, and an ACM Distinguished Speaker. In addition to his academic career, he is a serial entrepreneur and founder of multiple startup companies including Novafora, Invision, Videocites, and Fabula AI. He previously served as a Principal Engineer at Intel, where he was a key contributor to the RealSense 3D sensing technology.

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