Michael J. Black received his B.Sc. in honours computer science
from the University of British Columbia in 1985, his M.S. in computer
science from Stanford University in 1989, and his Ph.D. in computer
science from Yale University in 1992.
   Between 1990 and 1992, Prof. Black was a visiting researcher at the
NASA Ames Research Center, Aerospace Human Factors Research Division.
From 1992 to 1993 he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Computer Science at the University of Toronto.
   In 1993, Prof. Black joined the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
where he managed the Image Understanding Area and later founded and
managed the Digital Video Analysis research group.
   In 2000, Prof. Black joined the faculty of Brown University as
an Associate Professor of Computer Science and in 2004 he became a
Professor of Computer Science.  He also serves at the co-Director
of the Industrial Partners Program as a member of the Brain
Science Program Executive Committee. 
   Prof. Black has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions
on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (1998-2000) and sits on
the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Computer Vision
(2004-present). He has served as Area Chair for CVPR: 1998, 2000, 2001, 
2004, 2006, ICCV: 1999, 2001, ECCV: 2002, 2006 and he was the Program
Co-Chair for the Fourth International Conference on Automatic Face and
Gesture Recognition, 2000.  He has served on the SIGGRAPH 2002 papers
committee and numerous program committees.
   At the 1991 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition Prof. Black received the IEEE Computer Society Outstanding
Paper Award for his work with P. Anandan on robust optical flow
estimation.  He received a Teaching Award from the University of
Toronto in 1992.  He also received the University of Maryland
"Invention of the Year" award in 1995 for his work with Y. Yacoob on
recognizing facial expressions in video.  In 1999 his paper with 
David Fleet on the probabilistic detection and tracking of motion 
discontinuities received Honorable Mention for the Marr Prize at 
the International Conference on Computer Vision.  In 2005 he
also received Honorable Mention for the Marr Prize at ICCV for his
work with Stefan Roth on the spatial statistics of optical flow.
   Prof. Black's research interests include span computer vision and
neuroscience with a focus on the understanding of human movement.
In vision his work focuses on optical flow estimation, 
human motion estimation, natural image statistics, Markov random fields,
and robust statistics.  In neuroscience his focus is on probabilistic
models of motor-cortical coding and the development of neural
prostheses for the disabled.