Michael J. Black

Michael Black is a founding director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, an Honorarprofessor at the University of Tübingen, and is the Speaker of Cyber Valley. Black received his B.Sc. from the University of British Columbia (1985), M.S. from Stanford (1989), and Ph.D. from Yale University (1992). He has held positions at the University of Toronto, Xerox PARC, Brown University, and Amazon. He is a recipient of the PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award, the 2022 and 2010 Koenderink Prize, the 2013 Helmholtz Prize, the 2020 Longuet-Higgins Prize, and the 2024 SIGGRAPH Asia Test-of-Time award. He is a member of two national academies (Germany and Sweden). He has co-founded two companies: Body Labs and Meshcapade.