Prof. Arik Shamir
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Prof. Arik Shamir

Efi Arazi School of Computer Science Ph.D., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Former Dean

Research and Teaching Expertise

  • Computer Graphics Visualization
  • Image Processing
  • Computer Vision
  • Deep Learning
  • Computational Learning from Data
  • Prof. Ariel Shamir is a faculty member and the former Dean of the Efi Arazi school of Computer Science at Reichman University (the Interdisciplinary Center) in Israel. He received his Ph.D. in computer science in 2000 from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and spent two years as PostDoc at the University of Texas in Austin. Prof. Shamir has more than 150 publications and a number of patents. He was named one of the most highly cited researchers on the Thomson Reuters list in 2015, was recently the recipient of several best papers awards in SIGGRAPH, has co-authored a paper selected as one of the seminal computer graphics papers, was the recipient of AsiaGraphics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award in 2023, inducted into SIGGRAPH Academy in 2024, and received the Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award in 2025. Prof. Shamir has a broad commercial experience consulting various companies. He specializes in computer graphics, image processing, computer vision and machine learning. He is a member of the ACM SIGGRAPH, IEEE Computer, AsiaGraphics and EuroGraphics associations.