Amnon Shashua

Amnon Shashua (born 26 May 1960) is a computer science professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem as well as Co-founder and CTO of Mobileye[1] (NYSE:MBLY) and Co-founder of Orcam.[2]

Education

Prof. Shashua received his B.Sc in mathematics and computer science from Tel-Aviv University in 1985 and his M.Sc in computer science in 1989 from the Weizmann Institute of Science[3] under the supervision of Prof. Shimon Ullman. His Ph.D in brain and cognitive sciences was received from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), while working at the Artificial Intelligence laboratory, in 1993; and his postdoctoral training under Prof. Tomaso Poggio at the center for biological and computational learning at MIT.

Since 1996 he is with the faculty of computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1999 he was appointed as an associate professor and in 2003 received full professorship. Between the years 2002-2005 he was the head of the engineering and computer science school at the Hebrew University.[4] Prof. Shashua currently holds the Sachs chair in computer science at the Hebrew University.[5] Over the years Prof. Shashua has published over 100 papers in the field of machine vision and computational learning.

His work includes early visual processing of Saliency and Grouping mechanisms, Visual Recognition and Learning, Image Synthesis for Animation and Graphics, theory of Computer Vision in the areas of multiple-view geometry and multi-view tensors, multilinear algebraic systems in Vision and Learning and primal/dual optimization for approximate inference in MRF and Graphical models and recently on deep layered networks.

Awards and recognition

His work on multiple-view geometry received the "best paper award" at ECCV'2000 and the Honorable Mention to the MARR Prize in ICCV'2001. His work on graphical models has received a "Best Paper" award category at UAI'2008. Amnon Shashua received the first prize of the 2004 Kaye Innovation award, and the 2005 Landau Award for Science and Research in the area of exact sciences - Robotics. Since 2007 he became the incumbent of the newly formed Sachs chair in computer science.

Business

In 1995 he founded Cognitens which was later sold to Hexagon in 2007.[6] In 1999, Prof. Shashua co-founded Mobileye (NYSE:MBLY),[7] and currently serves as Chairman and CTO. Mobileye is a company that developed systems-on-chip and computer vision algorithms for detecting pedestrians, vehicles, traffic signs, lanes and more for driving assistance systems. Mobileye [8] is also developing autonomous driving technology. On August 1, 2014 Mobileye launched its IPO on the NYSE which was the biggest Israeli IPO ever in the US raising approx. $1B at a market cap of $5.3B.[9]

In 2010, Prof. Shashua co-founded "Orcam," an Israeli company which launched an assistive device [10] for the visually impaired based on computer vision capabilities.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.mobileye.com/
  2. ↑ http://www.orcam.com/
  3. ↑ http://www.weizmann.ac.il/
  4. ↑ http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/site/?i=cse_research_groups
  5. ↑ http://videolectures.net/amnon_shashua/
  6. ↑ http://www.hexagonmetrology.us/news-and-events/press-releases/83-hexagon-acquires-non-contact-measurement-company-Cognitens-ltd
  7. ↑ https://www.nyse.com/quote/XNYS:MBLY
  8. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/28/science/on-the-road-in-mobileyes-self-driving-car.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
  9. ↑ http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-31/mobileye-raises-890-million-as-largest-israeli-ipo-in-the-u-s-.html
  10. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/04/science/israeli-start-up-gives-visually-impaired-a-way-to-read.html?pagewanted=all

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