Talk:Matthew Turk

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To be clear, this article is about me. I think this is where I should be requesting minor edits.

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This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.

What I think should be changed:
Why it should be changed:

1. It states the I am the President of the Toyota Technological Institute of Chicago, but this is no longer the case - I stepped down from that in September 2025. https://www.ttic.edu/highlights/turk/

2. References 3 and 4 are duplicates, so one should be deleted. Reference 6 is pretty random; I'd suggest deleting it.

3. I'd like the article to link to my website: https://sites.cs.ucsb.edu/~mturk/

4. The last sentence of the first (main) paragraph is a bit awkward in terms of punctuation. More significantly, it highlights a few relatively random things from my career - to be appropriately informative, I would suggest other things to highlight instead (or perhaps in addition).

References supporting the possible change (format using the "cite" button):

(See above.)

I'd be happy to discuss this or provide further information if needed.

Thank you, Matthew Turk

Matthew Turk (talk) 01:31, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Done If you have specific suggestions (with sources) for your fourth point, please add them, I just tidied it up slightly. DrThneed (talk) 21:45, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the edits and the reply. I'm not very savvy regarding Wikipedia article edits (especially my own), so I appreciate the help. Rather than just dealing with point #4, can I offer a bit of an overhaul of the article, to provide more (and relevant) information - like articles for other colleagues with similar levels of impact?

Also, while I have you, I had a notice from 2023 about my username maybe not meeting Wikipedia's username policy. Is there something I should do about that?

Thanks, Matthew Matthew Turk (talk) 20:52, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

Ping.... (not sure how often you view this) Matthew Turk (talk) 01:29, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

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Edit request: updates to biography info for relevance and clarity

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I am the subject of this article and therefore have a conflict of interest.

I would like to update my personal Wikipedia entry. Some minor changes were made a few weeks ago, but it's still incomplete and uneven. Following similar entries for colleagues, I'd like to propose the entry below. I'm not sure exactly how this works, so please let me know if you need further information or if I should edit further.

Thanks.

Matthew Turk (talk) 01:05, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

More information Proposed entry, Matthew A. Turk ...

Proposed entry

Proposed entry for "Matthew Turk":

Matthew A. Turk

Born	San Diego, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Carnegie Mellon University Virginia Tech
Known for	Computer Vision Vision based interaction
Awards	IEEE Fellow (2012) Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) (2014) ACM Fellow (2020) Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) (2022) Fellow of the Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA) (2023) ACM ICMI Community Service Award (2014)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	University of California, Santa Barbara Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago Microsoft Research Teleos Research Martin Marietta Denver Aerospace
Doctoral advisor	Alex Pentland

Website	sites.cs.ucsb.edu/~mturk/

Matthew Turk is a professor emeritus and former department chair of both the Department of Computer Science and the Media Arts and Technology Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, California. He was the third President of the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago from 2019 to 2025.^[1]^[2] His research has covered various areas of computer vision and imaging, machine learning, human-computer interaction, augmented and virtual reality.^[3] Prior to joining UC Santa Barbara, he co-founded the Vision Technology Group at Microsoft Research. He co-founded an augmented reality startup company in 2014 that was acquired by PTC in 2016.

Turk has served as General or Program Chair of several major computing conferences, including the ACM Multimedia Conference, the IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and the IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision. He has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)^[4] for his contributions to computer vision and perceptual interfaces, a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)^[5] for his contributions to computer vision and vision based interaction, and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)^[6] for contributions to face recognition, computer vision, and multimodal interaction. He was also the recipient of the 2011-2012 Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Information and Communications Technologies.^[7]

Turk received a PhD at the MIT Media Lab^[8], an M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University, and a B.S. from Virginia Tech. His PhD research pioneered the Eigenfaces approach to face recognition.

References

[1]
"Announcement of Third TTIC President".
[2]
"TTIC Faculty Highlight: Matthew Turk". www.ttic.edu. Retrieved 16 February 2026.
[3]
"CS Department Biography".
[4]
"IEEE Fellow Directory". IEEE Fellows Directory.
[5]
"IAPR Fellows". www.iapr.org.
[6]
"2020 ACM Fellows". ACM Fellows.
[7]
"Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair". Retrieved 4 March 2025.
[8]
"Matthew Turk". VisMod Group. Retrieved 4 August 2022.

External links

Matthew Turk's homepage at University of California, Santa Barbara

Not done, see WP:COI for instructions, and don't use chatgpt or similar slop. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 02:22, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi, I stated my COI, and the text I proposed was written by me, not an LLM. So I'm not sure how else to respond. (And the Reply link doesn't work, so I'm not sure if an editor will see this.) Is it possible for someone to follow up? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mturk (talk • contribs)

@User:Mturk Hi there, I've changed the generic edit-request template to the COI edit request template. It usually takes a couple of weeks for someone to respond to a COI edit request, especially if you're trying to change a lot at once. Smaller additions/changes generally get responded to a lot faster, so I'd recommend proposing a sentence or two at a time to change, but what you have is fine as well. I also don't think your text was AI, so I've removed that warning. Hope that helps! InfernoHues (talk) 02:42, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. I think this means I should just wait until someone is able to get to it.

Matthew Matthew Turk (talk) 23:18, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Yep, exactly! You can see the backlog of requests here. InfernoHues (talk) 23:58, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Interesting.... Thanks. Matthew Turk (talk) 00:21, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

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