Paul Viola is a computer vision researcher, and Distinguished Engineer at Zoox.

He is a former MIT professor, a former vice president of science for Amazon Prime Air and a former Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft.

[1][2] He is best known for his seminal work in facial recognition and machine learning.

He is the co-inventor of the Viola–Jones object detection framework along with Michael Jones.

[5] He is the holder of at least 57 patents in the areas of advanced machine learning, web search, data mining, and image processing.