Shai Avidan is a professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, in 1999, and later worked at Microsoft Research, MobilEye, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), and Adobe, before joining Tel-Aviv University in 2009. He published extensively in the fields of object tracking in video and 3-D object modeling from images. Recently, he has been working on Computational Photography and Deep Learning. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence as well as a program committee member of multiple conferences and workshops in the fields of Computer Vision and Computer Graphics.
