Amnon Shashua

Professor Shashua is the President & CEO of Mobileye and a Senior Vice President at Intel Corporation. He also holds the Sachs Chair in computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Widely regarded as an expert in computer vision and machine learning, Shashua has published over 120 papers in the field of machine learning and computational vision, holds more than 45 patents, and has founded three startups in the fields of computer vision and machine learning. In 1999, he co-founded Mobileye, which is a widely recognized leader in automated driving and advanced driving assistance systems. Intel acquired Mobileye in 2017. Today, more than 30 million cars rely on Mobileye technology to make their vehicles safer. Mobileye’s autonomous vehicle platform will be launched in 2021. Earlier this year, Shashua was recognized as the Electronic Imaging (EI) Scientist of the Year by the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) for his pivotal contributions to computer vision and machine learning, and for advancing autonomous driving and wearable assistive devices for the blind and visually-impaired.