Matthew Turk is a professor and department chair of the Department of Computer Science 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. Starting on July 1st, he will be the president of the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago[2]. In 2014, Turk was named a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)[3] for his contributions to computer vision and vision based interaction.