{{short description|Israeli computer scientist and entrepreneur}} {{for|other people with a similar name|Mikhail Bronshtein (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = Michael Bronstein | native_name = מיכאל ברונשטיין | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MAE|FBCS}} FIEEE | native_name_lang = he | image = Michael Bronstein in Nepal 2024.jpg | image_size = | caption = Bronstein (right) in 2024 | birth_place = Tula, Russia | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1980}} | citizenship = Israel, United Kingdom | field = Computer Science | work_institutions = University of Oxford, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Imperial College London, University of Lugano, Harvard University | doctoral_advisor = Ron Kimmel | known_for = Geometric deep learning<br> Non-rigid shape analysis<br>Intel RealSense technology | awards = MAE 2020<br>Fellow BCS 2020<br>IEEE Fellow 2019<br>IAPR Fellow, 2018<br>Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, 2018 | alma_mater = Technion | relatives = Alex Bronstein (brother) }}
'''Michael Bronstein''' ({{Langx|he|מיכאל ברונשטיין}}; {{Langx|ru|Михаил Бронштейн}}; born 1980) is a British-Israeli computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is a computer science professor at the University of Oxford holding the DeepMind Chair in Artificial Intelligence and founding Scientific Director of Aithyra Institute<ref>{{Cite web |date=18 September 2024 |title=Announcement of Aithyra Institute by the Austrian Academy of Sciences |url=https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/oeaw-and-boehringer-ingelheim-foundation-establish-new-institute-for-artificial-intelligence-in-biomedicine-in-vienna-1 |archive-url=}}</ref> at the Vienna Biocenter in Austria.
== Biography ==
Bronstein received his PhD from the Technion in 2007. Since 2010, he has been a professor at University of Lugano, 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, Imperial College London. In 2022, he joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford as the DeepMind Professor of Artificial Intelligence.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/1996-full.html|title=Professor Michael Bronstein appointed as DeepMind Professor of Artificial Intelligence}}</ref>
Bronstein has held visiting appointments at Stanford University between 2009 and 2010, and at Harvard University and MIT between 2017 and 2018. He has been affiliated with the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (as a Radcliffe fellow, 2017-2018<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/michael-bronstein|title=Radcliffe fellows 2017-2018}}</ref>), the Institute for Advanced Study at Technical University of Munich (as Rudolf Diesel industrial fellow, 2017-2019<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ias.tum.de/alumni-fellows/bronstein-michael/|title=TUM IAS alumni fellows}}</ref>) and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (as visitor, 2020<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ias.edu/events/seminar-theoretical-machine-learning-66|title=IAS Seminar on Theoretical Machine Learning, 2020|date=25 October 2019 }}</ref>). Since 2024, he is also a Professeur titulaire at EPFL<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://actu.epfl.ch/news/three-school-of-engineering-faculty-members-appo-2/|title=Three School of Engineering faculty members appointed|date=6 December 2024}}</ref> and since 2025, an Honorary Professor at the University of Vienna and Technical University of Vienna<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2958|title=TU Wien Awards Honorary Professorship to Michael Bronstein|date=17 August 2025}}</ref>.
Bronstein was a co-founder of the Israeli startup Invision, developing a coded-light 3D range sensor. The company was acquired by Intel in 2012 and has become the foundation of Intel RealSense technology. Bronstein served as Principal Engineer at Intel between 2012 and 2019.
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 social networks. The company was acquired by Twitter in 2019.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/twitter-buys-fabula-artificial-intelligence-spam-abuse-fake-news-1203231508/|title=Twitter Buys Artificial-Intelligence Startup to Help Fight Spam, Fake News and Other Abuse |last=Spangler |first=Todd |newspaper=Variety |date=3 June 2019 |access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.silicon.co.uk/workspace/twitter-buys-london-start-up-fabula-ai-259315|title=Twitter Buys London Start-Up Fabula AI |newspaper=Silicon UK |date=3 June 2019 |access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref> He served as Head of Graph Learning Research at Twitter 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<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/an-idea-from-physics-helps-ai-see-in-higher-dimensions-20200109|title=An Idea From Physics Helps AI See in Higher Dimensions, Quanta Magazine 2020|date=9 January 2020 }}</ref>), generalizing neural network architectures to manifolds and graphs. These methods have been applied to molecular design.
== Public appearances ==
* TEDx Warwick 2023 * ICLR 2021 keynote talk<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Pw4MOzMuo|title=ICLR 2021 Keynote - "Geometric Deep Learning: The Erlangen Programme of ML"|website=YouTube |date=8 June 2021 }}</ref> * TEDx Lugano 2019 (with Kirill Veselkov)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTTJXTVi2l0|title=AI-designed HyperFood against cancer, TEDx Lugano 2019|website=YouTube |date=12 December 2019 }}</ref> * World Economic Forum 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC3qsi5eVK4|title=How to Build an Intelligent Machine, World Economic Forum 2015|website=YouTube |date=21 October 2015 }}</ref>
== Awards ==
* Turing World-Leading AI Research Fellowship, 2023<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.turing.ac.uk/news/welcoming-two-new-turing-ai-world-leading-researcher-fellows|title=Welcoming two new Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellows}}</ref> * Silver Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering, 2020<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.raeng.org.uk/grants-prizes/prizes/prizes-and-medals/individual-medals/silver-medal|title=Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medals}}</ref> * Fellow of the British Computer Society * Member of the Academia Europaea, 2020<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Acad_Main/List_of_Members/Elected%20members%202020|title=AE Elected Members 2020}}</ref> * IEEE Fellow, 2019<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2019-ieee-fellow-class.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220155228/https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2019-ieee-fellow-class.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 20, 2018|title=IEEE Fellow Class 2019|website=Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) }}</ref> * Prix de la Fondation Dalle Molle, 2018<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://portal.klewel.com/watch/webcast/labels-2018-dalle-molle|title=Cérémonie de remise des Prix Labels 2018 Dalle Molle}}</ref> * Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, 2018 * IAPR Fellow, 2018 * ACM Distinguished Speaker, 2015<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://speakers.acm.org/speakers/bronstein_5883|title=ACM Distinguished Speakers}}</ref> * World Economic Forum Young Scientist, 2014<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_YoungScientists2014.pdf|title=WEF Young Scientists Class 2014}}</ref> * 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.science/research-awards/recipients/michael-bronstein|title=Michael Bronstein-2020 Machine Learning Research Awards recipient|date=10 August 2020 }}</ref>
== Personal life ==
Bronstein is married with two children. He is the identical twin brother of Alex Bronstein.{{cn|date=January 2021}}
== Publications ==
* "Numerical Geometry of Non-Rigid Shapes" (with Alex Bronstein and Ron Kimmel), Springer 2008. * "Geometric deep learning: going beyond Euclidean data" (with Yann Lecun, Joan Bruna, Arthur Szlam and Pierre Vandergheynst), IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 2017.
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== External links == {{Wikiquote}} * [https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/michael.bronstein/ Michael Bronstein's homepage at Oxford]
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