Dan Levi is a Staff Researcher at the Smart Sensing and Vision group, General Motors R&D Israel, in the fields of computer vision and machine learning. He received his B.Sc. degree (with honor) in mathematics and computer science from the Tel-Aviv University, in 2000, and the M.Sc. and PhD degrees in applied mathematics and computer science at the Weizmann Institute, in 2004 and 2009 respectively. In the Weizmann Institute he conducted research in human and computer vision under the supervision of Professor Shimon Ullman. Since 2007 he has been conducting industrial computer vision research and development at several companies including General Motors and Elbit Systems, Israel.

What is the “pop in your job”:

I am excited to tackle on a day to day basis the challenging research problems involved in developing the perception for autonomous driving. The most intriguing question guiding his research is: how do we, as humans, perceive the world around us?

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