Matthew Turk should not be confused with Matthew Tuerk.
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[1] 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)[2] 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)[3] for contributions to face recognition, computer vision, and multimodal interaction. he was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)[4] 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.[5]
Turk received a PhD at the MIT Media Lab in 1991.[6]