Prof. Raja Giryes

Raja Giryes is an associate professor in the school of electrical engineering at Tel Aviv University. He received the B.Sc, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Computer Science, The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. Raja was a postdoc at the computer science department at the Technion and at the lab of Prof. G. Sapiro at Duke University, Durham, USA. His research interests lie at the intersection between signal and image processing and machine learning, and in particular, in deep learning, inverse problems, sparse representations, computational photography, and signal and image modeling. Raja received the EURASIP best P.hD. award, the ERC-StG grant, Maof prize for excellent young faculty (2016-2019), VATAT scholarship for excellent postdoctoral fellows (2014-2015), Intel Research and Excellence Award (2005, 2013), the Excellence in Signal Processing Award (ESPA) from Texas Instruments (2008) and was part of the Azrieli Fellows program (2010-2013). He has organized workshops and tutorials on deep learning theory in various conferences including ICML, CVPR, and ICCV. He serves as a consultant in various high-tech companies including Innoviz technologies. A computational imaging technology he has developed at Tel Aviv University together with Prof. David Mendelovic serves as the basis for the MultiVu technologies startup that he has co-founded in 2019.