About Me

Received my B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University, Israel where I am Full Professor of electro-optics.

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Has authored more than 220 technical articles, 3 book chapters, and is the holder of more than 140 patents all of them have been commercialized. I am the 1998 winner of ICO International Prize in Optics                   Ernst Abbe Medal by Carl Zeiss. I am a Fellow of The Optical Society of America. 

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Founder of successful opto-electronics startup companies (e.g. Civcom and Eyesquad) and served as their CEO. Civcom Inc. was acquired by Padtec S/A of Brazil, Eyesquad was acquired by Tessera Inc (NASDAQ symbol: TSRA) and that was acquired by Samsung. 

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Since January 2008 till December 2010, I was the Chief Scientist of the Israeli Ministry of Science. Also acted 6 years as the Co-Chair of GIF (German Israeli Foundation). Served 10 years as Vice Dean for Research of the Faculty of Engineering. At present I serve as the head of TAU Innovation Labs and a board member of the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA). I founded various novel academic programs, TAU Ventures VC and founder and Head of Zimin Institute for Engineering Solutions Advancing Better Lives.

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My research activities provided several worldwide breakthroughs such as hollow fibers for IR transmission; extended depth of field imaging; multi aperture imaging and folded camera; the fractional Fourier transform; depth sensing and image processing