David G. Stork

Dr. David G. Stork, PhD, graduated in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland. He has held faculty positions in physics, mathematics, computer science, electrical engineering, statistics, computational and mathematical engineering, symbolic systems, neuroscience, psychology, and art and art history at Wellesley College, Swarthmore College, the Technical University of Vienna, Clark University, Boston University, and Stanford University, where he teaches.

Dr. Stork is the founding pioneer of the use of sophisticated artificial intelligence and computer vision applied to problems in the history and interpretation of fine art paintings and drawings. He co-founded the field's first conference, taught its first courses at Stanford University and later at the Courtauld Institute of Art and the Technical University of Vienna, and published its first book, "Pixels & Paintings: Foundations of Computer-Assisted Connoisseurship."

He has lectured widely at leading art museums around the world, as well as at academic conferences and universities. He also co-created the PBS documentary "2001: HAL's Legacy," which compared the visions of 2001: A Space Odyssey with actual computer science developments in the namesake year.

Dr. Stork is an award-winning teacher and has published more than 220 scholarly articles, nine books and 64 U.S. patents. His work has garnered more than 100,000 scholarly citations and several academic awards. He was chief scientist of the American arm of the $15 billion international Ricoh Co. in its Silicon Valley lab, is an advisor to the AI Capital venture fund, and has been associated with five startup companies, including most recently, as co-founder and chief scientist of Vrai-AI, which empowers anyone to detect fakes from mobile phone photographs of products and medicines.