Organizing Committee
Dr. Yoni Kasten
NVIDIA research
E-mail: ykasten@nvidia.com
Yoni Kasten joined NVIDIA Research in July 2021. His research is mostly in the domain of 3D computer vision (e.g. Camera Localization, Structure From Motion and 3D reconstruction) and has recently focused on deep neural models for computer vision problems that involve geometry. Yoni completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Ronen Basri at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. Prior to that, he completed his M.Sc. with Prof. Shmuel Peleg and Prof. Michael Werman from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Eyal Gil-Ad
Innoviz Technologies
E-mail: eyal.gilad@innoviz-tech.com
Eyal is an Algorithm Engineer with over 10 years of experience in the fields of Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Image Processing. Eyal manages and leads the object detection and calibrations perception algorithms activities at Innoviz. Prior to Innoviz, Eyal held key positions in several startup companies, early-stage core team to late stage, leading computer vision projects from conception to productization for applications such as autonomous drones, security, and industrial automation. Eyal Holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Ben-Gurion University and an MSc in Electrical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University.
Dr. Omri Harish
Innoviz Technologies
E-mail: omri.harish@innoviz-tech.com
Omri is a computer vision engineer and a deep learning researcher working on the Innoviz perception module. His academic and professional experience extends from bio-medical engineering undergraduate studies, through a Ph.D in computational neuroscience to developing algorithms for perception in 2D and 3D. With several publications and patents in his record, Omri’s current interest is using deep learning for 3D object detection in point cloud data. His work is powering the core modules of Innoviz perception software.
Prof. Danfei Xu
Georgia Tech and NVIDIA research
E-mail: danfeix@nvidia.com
Webpage: https://cs.stanford.edu/~danfei/
Danfei Xu is a Research Scientist at NVIDIA and an incoming faculty at Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing. He works in the intersection of Robotics, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision. His research works sought to enable autonomous agents to solve long-horizon tasks in complex, ecological environments. He also co-organized workshops and tutorials in various conferences including ICCV and IROS.
Prof. Raja Giryes
Tel Aviv University and Innoviz Technologies
E-mail: raja@tauex.tau.ac.il
Webpage: http://web.eng.tau.ac.il/~raja/
Raja Giryes is an associate professor in the school of electrical engineering at Tel Aviv University and a consultant at Innoviz technologies. His research interests lie at the intersection between signal and image processing and machine learning, and in particular, in deep learning, inverse problems and computational imaging. Raja received the EURASIP best P.hD. award and ERC-StG grant, among many other prizes and grants. He is an associate editor in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and Elsevier Pattern Recognition and has organized workshops and tutorials in various conferences including ICML, CVPR, and ICCV.
Steering Committee
Dr. Jan Kautz
Vice President of Learning and Perception Research, NVIDIA
E-mail: jkautz@nvidia.com
Webpage: https://jankautz.com/
Jan Kautz is the Vice President of Learning and Perception Research at NVIDIA. He and his team pursue fundamental research in the areas of computer vision and deep learning, including visual perception, geometric vision, generative models, and efficient deep learning. Their work has been awarded various awards and has been regularly featured in the media. Before joining NVIDIA in 2013, Jan was a tenured faculty member at University College London. Jan has chaired numerous conferences, has served on many editorial boards, and has co-organized tutorials and workshops.
Prof. Gal Chechik
NVIDIA research and Bar Ilan University
E-mail: gchechik@nvidia.com
Webpage: https://chechiklab.biu.ac.il/
Gal Chechik is a Professor at the Gonda Brain research institute in Bar-Ilan University and a director of AI at NVIDIA, Leading NVIDIA research in Israel. His research spans learning in brains and machines, focusing mainly on deep machine learning for perception and reasoning. Gal is the author of ~110 refereed publications, and ~40 patents including publications in Nature Biotechnology, Cell and PNAS. His work won best-paper awards at NeurIPS and ICML, the world leading conferences in machine learning. He co-organized multiple workshops at NeurIPS, as well as local conferences. He is also a senior AC at NeurIPS and AC at ICLR, ICML.
Omer Keilaf
CEO & Co-Founder of Innoviz Technologies
E-mail: omerk@innoviz-tech.com
Omer Keilaf is the CEO and co-founder of Innoviz Technologies, a leading provider of LiDAR sensing technology and perception software solutions. Mr. Keilaf is committed to the mission of enabling the mass commercialization of safe autonomous vehicles. Prior to Innoviz, He held senior leadership roles at companies including Consumer Physics, STMicroelectronics and Anobit. He has BSc and MSc in Electrical Engineering and MBA, all from Tel Aviv University.