Associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) and IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM). Also served as an associate editor for Springer The Visual Computer Journal (TVCJ). Has organized or co-organized several international conferences such as WACV 2024, ECCV 2022, ICCV 2021, etc. Received the 2024 Outstanding Associate Editor Award from T-BIOM.
Research Experience
From 2015 to 2018, he was a senior computer scientist at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and a Visiting Associate Professor at the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Viterbi School of Engineering, both at USC, CA, USA, working on the IARPA Janus face recognition project. He was also an associate professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, The Open University of Israel until 2018.
Background
Research interests include computer vision, pattern recognition, and machine learning. Specializes in face recognition and related technologies. Former senior applied research lead at Meta AI and principal scientist at AWS. Currently co-founder and CTO of WEIR AI.
Miscellany
Invited as a speaker at multiple international workshops and conferences including ICCV'23, ELLIS Summer School on Large-Scale AI for Research and Industry, ECCV'22, etc.