David Alexander Forsyth is Fulton Watson Copp Chair in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is a leading researcher in computer vision. Professor Forsyth has regularly served as a program or general chair for the top conferences in computer vision, and has just finished a second term as Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. A Fellow of the ACM (2014) and IEEE (2009), Forsyth has also been recognized with the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Achievement Award (2005), the Marr Prize, and a prize for best paper in cognitive computer vision (ECCV 2002). Many of his former students are famous in their own right as academics or industry leaders. He is the co-author with Jean Ponce of Computer Vision: A Modern Approach (2002; 2011), published in four languages, and a leading textbook on the topic. Among a variety of odd hobbies, he is a compulsive diver, certified up to normoxic trimix level.