Andrew Blake graduated in 1977 from Trinity College, Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Electrical Sciences. After a year as a Kennedy Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and two years in the defence electronics industry, he studied for a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh which was awarded in 1983.
Until 1987 he was on the faculty of the department of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh, as a Royal Society Research Fellow. From 1987 to 1999, he was on the academic staff of the Department of Engineering Science in the University of Oxford, where he became a Professor in 1996, and was a Royal Society Senior Research Fellow for 1998-1999. In 1999 he moved to Microsoft Research Cambridge as Senior Research Scientist, where he founded the Computer Vision Group.
In 2008 he became a Deputy Managing Director at the lab, before becoming Laboratory Director in 2010.
Andrew was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1998, Fellow of the Royal Society in 2005 and Fellow of the IEEEin 2008. In 2006 the Royal Academy of Engineering awarded Andrew its Silver Meda He has twice won the prize of the European Conference on Computer Vision, with R. Cipolla in 1992 and with M. Isard in 1996, and was awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers David Marr Prize (jointly with K Toyama) in 2001. In 2007 he was awarded the Mountbatten Medal by the The Institution of Engineering and Technology . In 2009 he was awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Vision Significant Researcher Award. In 2010 Andrew was elected to the council of the Royal Society. In 2011, he and colleagues at Microsoft Research received the Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award for their machine learning contribution to Microsoft Kinect human motion-capture. In 2012 Andrew was elected to the board of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and also received an honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Edinburgh. In 2013 Andrew was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering from the University of Sheffield. In 2014, Andrew gave the prestigious Josiah Willard Gibbs lecture at the Joint Mathematics Meetings.
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