- Professor, School of Computer Science and AI, Raymond & Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Lior Wolf is a Full Professor in the School of Computer Science and AI at the Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, and CEO of Mentee Robotics. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the supervision of Prof. Amnon Shashua, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT’s Center for Biological and Computational Learning, working with Prof. Tomaso Poggio. He joined Tel Aviv University in 2006 and subsequently served as Research Scientist and Director at Facebook AI Research from 2017 to 2021.
Dr. Wolf’s research focuses on computer vision and deep learning, spanning object detection, face identification, medical imaging, bioinformatics, natural language processing, video action recognition, and audio synthesis. For the Colton Consortium, his group is contributing to research on immunotherapy-related adverse effects as models for fragile immune tolerance in humans. He is an ERC grantee and has received best paper awards at ECCV, ICCV, ICANN, and Face & Gesture, as well as the ICCV Marr Prize honorable mention. He has over 46,000 citations on Google Scholar.
