Bradley Horowitz

Bradley Joseph Horowitz is an American entrepreneur and internet executive. He is a vice president at Google. Early life and education Horowitz was born in Dearborn, Michigan. Horowitz received a bachelor of science in computer science from the University of Michigan in 1989. He pursued his graduate studies at the MIT Media Lab, in the Vision and Modeling Group, under Professor Sandy Pentland. He received a master of science in Media Arts and Sciences in 1991, and subsequently entered the PhD program. He dropped out of the PhD program in 1993 to co-found Virage. Horowitz's academic work focused on the intersection of computer vision, image processing and computer graphics. He has published numerous refereed papers in academic journals, including work on recovery of non-rigid structure from motion and fractal image compression, and has been awarded more than a dozen patents.