Ian Jermyn received a BA Honours degree (First Class) in Physics from Oxford University, and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Manchester, UK. After working as a postdoc at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, he studied for and received a PhD in Computer Vision from the Computer Science department of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He then joined the Ariana research group at Inria Sophia Antipolis, first as a postdoctoral researcher, and then as a Senior Research Scientist.