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Ron Kimmel

EDUCATION
  • D.Sc. Technion 1995
  • M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering Technion 1992
  • B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering Technion 1986
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
  • 2007-present Professor, Computer Science Department, Technion, Israel
  • 2003-2004 Visiting Professor, Computer Science Department, Stanford University, California
  • 2001-2007 Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Technion
  • 1998-2001 Senior lecturer, Computer Science Department, Technion
  • 1995-1998 Postdoctoral researcher, Berkeley Lab. and Math. at UC Berkeley
HONORS & AWARDS
  • IEEE Fellow for contributions to image processing and non-rigid shape analysis, 2009
  • Student Paper Award Copper Mountain Conf. on Multigrid Methods, 2005
  • Counter Terrorism Award Technion, 2003
  • Hershel Rich Innovation Award Technion, 2003
  • Henry Taub Prize Technion, 2001
  • Student Paper Award Copper Mountain Conf. on Multigrid Methods, 2001
  • Hershel Rich innovation award Technion, 2001
  • Omikron Delta Prize IEEE student paper competition, Tel-Aviv, 2000
  • Izaac M. Kolthoff Memorial Academic Lectureship Technion, 1999-2000
  • Alon Fellowship Technion, 1998-2001
  • HTI Fellowship Technion, 1996
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
  • Editorial Board: 2003-present, International Journal of Computer Vision
  • Editorial Board: 2008-present, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
  • Editorial Board: 2003-2007, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • Invited Editor: Special Issue, International Journal of Computer Vision, 2006
  • Organizing Committees: Scale-Space 2001, NORDIA 2008.
  • General Co-Chair: Scale-Space 2005, SIAM Conference on Imaging Science 2006.
  • Mini-symposium Organizer: 5th Int. Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics 2003; SIAM Geometric Design & Computing 2003
  • Program Committees: Scale-Space 1997,99,03; Israeli Symp. on AICVNN 1997; VLSM 2001; ECCV 2002,04,06; ISMM 2002,05; CVPR 2003,05,06,07,08; SGP 2003,04,05; ICIP 2003,04,05,07; ICCV 2003,05,07; DGCI 2003,05,06; ACCV 2006,07; PSIVT 2006; Articulated and Nonrigid Motion 2004; Real-time 3D Sensors and Their Use 2005; 3D Imaging for Safety and Security 2005; AMFG 2005,07; Curves and surfaces 2006; SSVM 2007,09, etc.

INDUSTRY CONSULTING
  • 2009-present Co-Founder & Technical Staff of BBK Technologies Ltd.
  • 2009-present Technical Advisory Board of Quiksee
  • 2007-present Technical Advisory Board of MedicVision Brain Technologies
  • 2004-2009 Co-Founder & Technical Staff of Novafora
  • 2003-present Co-Founder & Technical Staff of Agileye Technologies Ltd.
  • 2002-present Technical Advisory Board of MediGuide acquired by St. Jude Medical 2009
  • 2000-2001 Consultant of Jigami (Net2Wireless)
  • 1998-2000 Consultant of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
MISCELLANEOUS
  • Hobbies: reading, painting, biking, skiing, swimming, hiking, dancing, and playing with geometry

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