Schiele studied computer science at the
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and at the
École nationale supérieure d'informatique et de mathématiques appliquées de Grenoble (Ensimag). He received his
diploma in computer science from Ensimag in 1993 and from the University of Karlsruhe in 1994. In 1994, he was visiting researcher at the
Carnegie Mellon University. In 1997, he received his
Ph.D. under the supervision of James L. Crowley from
Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP). From 1999 to 2004 he was assistant professor at
ETH Zurich. From 1997 to 2000, he was postdoctoral associate and visiting assistant professor in the group of
Alex Pentland at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). From 2004 to 2010 he was professor at the
department of computer science of the
Technische Universität Darmstadt. Since 2010 Schiele has been Max Planck Director at the
Max Planck Institute for Informatics and professor at
Saarland University. == Awards ==