Matthew Turk

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{{short description|President of the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago}}

Matthew Turk is the President of the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, and a professor emeritus and former department chair of the Department of Computer Science and the Media Arts and Technology Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, California. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2013{{Cite web|url=https://www.ieee.org/membership/fellows/fellows-directory.html|title=IEEE Fellow Directory|last=|first=|date=|website=IEEE Fellows Directory|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}} for his contributions to computer vision and perceptual interfaces. In 2014, Turk was also named a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR){{Cite web|url=http://www.iapr.org/fellowsandawards/?ar=2|title=IAPR Fellows|last=|first=|website=www.iapr.org|access-date=2017-05-12}} for his contributions to computer vision and vision based interaction. In January 2021, he was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM){{Cite web|url=https://www.acm.org/media-center/2021/january/fellows-2020|title=2020 ACM Fellows|last=|first=|date=|website=ACM Fellows|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}} for contributions to face recognition, computer vision, and multimodal interaction. he was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM){{Cite web|url=https://www.acm.org/media-center/2021/january/fellows-2020|title=2020 ACM Fellows|last=|first=|date=|website=ACM Fellows|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}} for contributions to face recognition, computer vision, and multimodal interaction. Matthew Turk served in the Steering Committee of ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction between 2002-2015, and chaired the committee between 2007-2009 and received the ICMI Community Service Award in 2014.{{Cite web|url=https://icmi.acm.org/2024/steering-committee/|title=ACM ICMI Steering Committee|last=|first=|date=|website=ACM ICMI Steering Committee|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}

Turk received a PhD at the MIT Media Lab in 1991.{{cite web |title=Matthew Turk |url=https://vismod.media.mit.edu/people/affiliates/turk.html |website=VisMod Group |access-date=4 August 2022}}