Ira Kemelmacher-Shilzerman

Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman is a Scientist and Entrepreneur. Ira's interests are in the intersection of computer
vision, computer graphics, and learning. She is an Associate Professor in the Allen School at the University of
Washington, Founder and Co-Director of the UW Reality Lab, and kickstarting a moonshot project in Google
starting 2019. She founded a startup Dreambit that was acquired by Facebook Inc. in 2016, spent two years at
Facebook as Research Scientist building products between 2016-2018, and Tech Transfered product Face
Movies to Google Inc. in 2011.
Ira's Ph.D is in computer science and applied mathematics from the Weizmann Institute of Science. Her works
were awarded the Google faculty award, Madrona prize, the Innovation of the Year Award, 2016, selected to
the covers of CACM and SIGGRAPH, and frequently covered by most national and international media. She
has been serving as area chair and technical committee of both CVPR and SIGGRAPH, and part of Expert
Network, LDV capital.