Andrew Blake Deputy Managing
Director, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Andrew
Blake is Deputy Managing Director at the Microsoft
Research laboratory in Cambridge, where he also leads research in Computer Vision and
shares leadership of the Machine Learning and Perception Group (MLP) with Prof. Christopher
Bishop.
He graduated in 1977 from Trinity
College, Cambridge with a B.A. in Mathematics and Electrical Sciences. After a
year as a Kennedy Scholar at MIT and two years in the defence electronics
industry, he studied for a doctorate at the University of Edinburgh which was
awarded in 1983. Until 1987 he was on the faculty of the department of Computer
Science at the University of Edinburgh and a Royal Society Research Fellow.
From 1987 to 1999, he has been on the faculty of the Department of Engineering
Science in the University of Oxford, where he ran the Visual Dynamics Research Group,
became a Professor in 1996, and and was a Royal Society Senior Research Fellow
for 1998-9. In 1999 he moved to Microsoft Research Cambridge to lead research
in Computer Vision. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1998, and
Fellow of the Royal Society in 2005.
In 2006 the Royal Academy of Engineering awarded him its Silver
Medal and in 2007 the Institution of Engineering and Technology presented
him with the Mountbatten
Medal (previously awarded to computer pioneers Maurice Wilks and Tim
Berners-Lee, amongst others.)
He has published several books including "Visual
Reconstruction" with A.Zisserman
(MIT press), "Active
Vision" with A. Yuille
(MIT Press) and "Active
Contours" with M.
Isard (Springer-Verlag). He has twice won the prize of the European
Conference on Computer Vision, with R. Cipolla in 1992 and with
M. Isard in 1996, and was awarded the IEEE David Marr Prize (jointly with K. Toyama) in 2001.
He has served as programme chairman for the International Conference on
Computer Vision in 1995 and 1999, and is on the editorial boards of the
journals "Image and Vision Computing", the "International
Journal of Computer Vision" and "Computer Vision and Image
Understanding". Current research spans
image interaction, stereo vision and motion tracking.
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