| CRO, GrowIn Disrupting the agriculture world by taking a data driven approach to vertical, modular, and automatic farming. |
2018-Present |
| Founder, Minerva Technologies Developing innovative computer vision and machine learning algorithms to disrupt the brick & mortar shopping and checkout experience. |
2017-2018 |
| Head of Computer Vision, Oculus/Facebook
Led Oculus’ computer vision and machine learning R&D group (about 80 engineers, scientist and managers). Managed multiple M&A activities, defined product strategy, created independent high throughput teams, and shipped exciting technologies to consumers. |
2013-2017 |
| Senior Computer Vision Engineer, Oculus VR
Led Oculus’ computer vision R&D. Designed, developed and shipped a high accuracy and low latency position tracking system. Involved in camera design, driver and interface implementation. Participated in manufacturing efforts. |
2012-2013 |
| Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University
Conducted research in autonomous mobile manipulation with focus on perception in unstructured environments. Developed state-of-the-art perception algorithms for detecting, tracking and modeling novel objects (natural and man-made). Integrated machine-learning methods to enable lifelong learning of robotic perception and manipulation skills. |
2011-2012 |
| Research Assistant, Technical University of Berlin
Designed and supervised the implementation of a new robotic platform. Led a team of PhD students in the design of a new software library. Involved in hiring decisions. |
2009-2011 |
| Research Assistant, University of Massachusetts Amherst Conducted various research projects on autonomous mobile manipulation in the robotics research lab. |
2005-2009 |
| Research Assistant, Tel-Aviv University Led a research project on matching emotional states with facial expression using computer vision, in the research group of Prof. Messer-Yaron. |
2003-2004 |
| Software Engineer, Zend Technologies Directed the design and implementation of software packaging on multiple operating systems for the leading web scripting language PHP. |
2000-2005 |