His received his Doctorat de Troisieme Cycle and his Doctorat d'Etat in Computer Science from the University of Paris in 1983 and 1988 respectively. Dr. Ponce joined the University of Illinois in 1990 after holding research positions at INRIA, MIT and Stanford University. His research interests are in computer vision and robotics, and include shape representation, object recognition, motion analysis, automatic model acquisition from images, image-based rendering, grasping and manipulation.