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Amnon Shashua

Amnon Shashua is an Israeli computer scientist and entrepreneur, known as co-founder and chief executive of Mobileye and a professor of computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

born 1960Founding MobileyeComputer vision researchAutonomous driving technologyCo-founding OrCam

Born: 26 May 1960, Givatayim
Occupation: computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher
Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tel Aviv University, Weizmann Institute of Science
Founded: Mobileye (1998), 2019)

Amnon Shashua was born in 1960 in Givatayim

Amnon Shashua was born on May 26, 1960, to parents from Iraq. He studied computers at the ORT school in Givatayim.

He earned a B.Sc. in mathematics and computer science from Tel Aviv University in 1985 and an M.Sc. from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1989. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1993 and did postdoctoral work there.

After school he enlisted in the IDF and served as an armor officer.

He joined the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1996 and became a full professor in 2003. He headed its school of computer science and engineering from 2002 to 2005. His research focuses on computer vision and machine learning.

He founded CogniTens in 1995 and co-founded Mobileye, which Intel bought in 2017. He also co-founded OrCam, AI21 Labs, the digital bank One Zero and Mentee Robotics. He received the Israel Prize in 2023.