CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
- D.Sc. Technion 1995
- M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering Technion 1992
- B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering Technion 1986
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- 2007-present Professor, Computer Science Department, Technion, Israel
- 2003-2004 Visiting Professor, Computer Science Department, Stanford University, California
- 2001-2007 Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Technion
- 1998-2001 Senior lecturer, Computer Science Department, Technion
- 1995-1998 Postdoctoral researcher, Berkeley Lab. and Math. at UC Berkeley
HONORS & AWARDS (partial)
- SIAM Fellow for contributions to shape reconstruction, image processing, and geometric analysis, 2019
- SIAG on Imaging Science Best Paper Prize for SIAM Journal of Imaging Science‘2013. Scale invariant geometry for non-rigid shapes, Awarded 2016
- Cooper Prize for Academic Excellence, 2014
- Test-of-Time Award for ICCV’95 Geodesic active contours, 2011, Helmholtz Prize 2013
- IEEE Fellow for contributions to image processing and non-rigid shape analysis, 2009
- Student Paper Award Copper Mountain Conf. on Multigrid Methods, 2005
- Counter Terrorism Award Technion, 2003
- Hershel Rich Innovation Award Technion, 2003
- Henry Taub Prize Technion, 2001
- Student Paper Award Copper Mountain Conf. on Multigrid Methods, 2001
- Hershel Rich innovation award Technion, 2001
- Omikron Delta Prize IEEE student paper competition, Tel-Aviv, 2000
- Izaac M. Kolthoff Memorial Academic Lectureship Technion, 1999-2000
- Alon Fellowship Technion, 1998-2001
- HTI Fellowship Technion, 1996
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (partial)
- Head of academic affairs 2018-2022, Technion Autonomous Systems Program (TASP)
- Editorial Board: 2003-2018, International Journal of Computer Vision
- Editorial Board: 2010-2018, SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences
- Editorial Board: 2008-2014, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
- Editorial Board: 2003-2007, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
- Invited Editor: Special Issue, International Journal of Computer Vision, 2006
INDUSTRY CONSULTING (partial)
- 2022-present Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer of Lumix.AI
- 2009-present Co-Founder & Partner of BBK Technologies Ltd
- 2014-present Co-Founder & Board Member of VideoCites
- 2009-present Inventor & Technical Staff of InVision. acquired by Intel 2011
- 2009-2010 Technical Advisory Board of Quiksee acquired by Google 2010
- 2007 Technical Advisory Board of MedicVision Brain Technologies
- 2004-2009 Co-Founder & Technical Staff of Novafora
- 2003-present Co-Founder & Technical Staff of Agileye Technologies Ltd.
- 2002-2009 Technical Advisory Board of MediGuide acquired by St. Jude Medical 2009
- 2000-2001 Consultant of Jigami (Net2Wireless)
- 1998-2000 Consultant of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
MISCELLANEOUS
- Hobbies: reading, painting, biking, skiing, swimming, hiking, dancing, and playing with geometry