Scholar
Matthew Turk
Google Scholar ID: KltleWgAAAAJ
President, TTIC
Citations & Impact
Citations
7,125
H-index
34
i10-index
84
Publications
20
Co-authors
117
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, IAPR, AAIA, AIIA, and member of the Computing Community Consortium. Currently an Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS). Published multiple books including 'Computer Vision: Challenges, Trends, and Opportunities' and 'Advanced Methods and Deep Learning in Computer Vision'.
Research Experience
- Prior to TTIC, he was at UC Santa Barbara, where he was Chair of the Computer Science Department and the Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program, and had additional appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Dynamical Neuroscience Graduate Program. He was also on steering committees for the Center for Information Technology and Society, the Cognitive Science Program, the Sage Center for the Study of the Mind, the Center for Spatial Studies and Data Science, and the Center for Digital Games Research.
Education
- Received a BS from Virginia Tech, an MS from Carnegie Mellon University, and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Background
- President and Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC), and Emeritus Professor in Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His main research interests are in computer vision and imaging, machine learning, multimodal interaction, augmented and virtual reality, and related areas. He co-founded a startup company in 2016 to commercialize augmented reality for remote telecollaboration, which was acquired by PTC and became part of their Vuforia augmented reality platform. In recent years, he has been keenly interested in legal and ethical matters relating to AI and computing.
Miscellany
- Personal interests include education and social change, advocating for changing the world through learning computer science.
