David J. Kriegman received a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Princeton University in 1983, and was awarded the Charles Ira Young Medal for Electrical Engineering Research. He received an M.S. in 1984 and Ph.D. in 1989 in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. From 1990-1998, he was on the faculty of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Departments at Yale University. In 1998, he joined the Computer Science Department and Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he is an Associate Professor. Kriegman was chosen for a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award in 1992, and has received best paper awards at the 1996 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) and the 1998 European Conference on Computer Vision. He has served as Program Co-chair of CVPR 2000, is the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. He has published over one hundred papers on object recognition, illumination modeling, face recognition, structure from motion, geometry of curves and surfaces, mobile robot navigation, and robot planning.