Michael Jones

Michael J. Jones is an American computer scientist and inventor working as a computer vision researcher at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories.

Education Jones earned a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997 under Tomaso Poggio.

Career Jones is the co-inventor, with Paul Viola, of the Viola–Jones face detection method, an ICCV 2003 Marr Prize and CVPR Longuet-Higgins Prize winner. In 2026, he was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.