Jiří Matas received received an MSc degree in cybernetics (with honours) from the Czech Technical University in Prague in 1987 and a PhD degree from the University of Surrey in 1995 with Josef Kittler serving as his thesis advisor.
[1] In 2016 he was named Finland distinguished professor (FiDiPro) at Oulu and Tampere Universities.
Matas served as programme chair for the 2004 and 2016 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) and the 2007 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)[citation needed], as well as general chair for both ECCV and CVPR in 2022.
[3][4] From 2011 to 2017 he was a member of the computer science panel of the European Research Council.
[5] According to the website Research.com, Matas is currently the #1 CompSci scientist in the Czech Republic based on discipline h-index.