Michael Jones (scientist)Michael J. Jones is an American computer scientist and inventor working as a computer vision researcher at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories.EducationJones earned a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997 under Tomaso Poggio.CareerJones 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.