Prof. Michael J. Black

Short Bio

Michael Black is VP Digital Human Research at Epic Games, Emeritus Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems where he was a co-founder, and Honorarprofessor at the University of Tübingen. He graduated from the University of British Columbia (B.Sc. 1985), Stanford (M.S., 1989), and Yale (Ph.D. 1992). He held positions at University of Toronto, Xerox PARC, Brown, and Amazon. He received the PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award, the Everingham Prize, and six "test of time awards": SIGGRAPH Asia, Koenderink Prize, Longuet-Higgins Prize, Helmholtz Prize. He belongs to three national academies (Germany, Sweden, NAE). He co-founded Body Labs and Meshcapade.