Michael Bronstein (b. 1980) is an Israeli computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is a computer science professor at the

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Biography

Bronstein received his PhD from the Technion in 2007. Since 2010, he has been a professor at

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, Switzerland, affiliated with the Institute of Computational Science and IDSIA. Between 2018 and 2021, he held the Chair in Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition in the Department of Computing,

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. In 2022, he joined the Department of Computer Science at the

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as the DeepMind Professor of

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. Bronstein has held visiting appointments at Stanford University between 2009 and 2010, and at

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and

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between 2017 and 2018. He has been affiliated with the

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(as a Radcliffe fellow, 2017-2018), the Institute for Advanced Study at

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(as Rudolf Diesel industrial fellow, 2017-2019) and the

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(as visitor, 2020). Bronstein was a co-founder of the Israeli startup Invision, developing a coded-light 3D range sensor. The company was acquired by

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in 2012 and has become the foundation of Intel RealSense technology. Bronstein served as Principal Engineer at Intel between 2012 and 2019, playing a leading role in the development of RealSense. In 2018, Bronstein founded Fabula AI, a London-based startup aiming to solve the problem of online disinformation by looking at how it spreads on

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. The company was acquired by

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in 2019. He served as Head of Graph Learning Research at

between 2019 and 2023.

Work

Bronstein's research interests are broadly in theoretical and computational geometric methods for data analysis. His research encompasses a spectrum of applications ranging from machine learning, computer vision, and pattern recognition to geometry processing, computer graphics, and imaging. He is mainly known for his research on deformable 3D shape analysis and "geometric deep learning" (a term he coined), generalizing neural network architectures to manifolds and graphs. These methods have been applied to molecular design.

Public appearances

* ICLR 2021 keynote talk * TEDx Lugano 2019 (with Kirill Veselkov) *

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2015.

Awards

* Silver Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering, 2020 * Fellow of the British Computer Society * Member of the

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, 2020 *

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, 2019 * Prix de la Fondation Dalle Molle, 2018 *

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, 2018 * IAPR Fellow, 2018 * ACM Distinguished Speaker, 2015 *

Young Scientist, 2014 * Hershel Rich Technion Innovation Award, 2003 Bronstein is also the recipient of five ERC grants, two Google Faculty Research awards, and two Amazon AWS ML Research grants.

Personal life

Bronstein is married with two children and currently resides in

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. He is the identical twin brother of Alex Bronstein.

Publications

* "Numerical Geometry of Non-Rigid Shapes" (with Alex Bronstein and

Ron Kimmel Ron Kimmel ( he, רון קימל, b. 1963) is a professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering (by courtesy) at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. He holds a D.Sc. degree in electrical engineering (1995) from the ...

), Springer 2008. * "Geometric deep learning: going beyond Euclidean data" (with Yann Lecun, Joan Bruna, Arthur Szlam and Pierre Vandergheynst), IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 2017.

References

External links

Michael Bronstein's homepage at Imperial College
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bronstein, Michael Living people Israeli computer scientists Computer vision researchers Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni Fellow Members of the IEEE Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology Members of Academia Europaea Academics of Imperial College London Artificial intelligence researchers Academics of the Department of Computing, Imperial College London 1980 births Immigrants to Israel