Yehoshua (Josh) Y. Zeevi received his B.Sc.
degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion―Israel Institute of
Technology, the M.Sc. from the University of Rochester
N.Y., and the Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. While he was a
student at the Technion he pursued his
bioelectronics-related research under the direction of Professor Franz Ollendorff.
He was a Guest Scientist at
the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. From 1972 until his return to Israel in 1975
he was a Vinton Hayes Fellow at the Division of Applied Sciences of Harvard
University and continued to be a regular visitor there for over twenty years.
Simultaneously he was a Fellow-at-large at the MIT-NRP program until 1974. Upon
his return to the Technion he established the
multidisciplinary field and research center devoted to Vision and Image
Sciences, and pursued his research interests in biological and computer vision,
neural networks, image processing and recognition algorithms that mimic
biological vision, and large scale image tracking and
clustering. He later founded the Technion Ollendorff Minerva Center dedicated to this field of
research, and in 1988 he became the incumbent of the Norman and Barbara Seiden
Chair in Computer Sciences in the Department of Electrical Engineering. He
was a Visiting Professor at MIT on a joint appointment with Harvard University
(1980-1982), Rutgers and Harvard Universities (1989-1991), and Columbia University
(2001-2003) where he continues to maintain his affiliation. He was also a
visitor at various universities and research centers, including a Senior
Visiting Scientist at the NTT Research Labs in Japan, and SCEEE-AFOSR Fellow at
the USA Flight Simulators Center, on a joint appointment with MIT. He served as
the Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (1994-1999), during which
time he led the department through its greatest period of growth in number of
students and in the field of computer engineering. The department then became
known as the incubator of the Israeli Startup Nation. He then founded, and
later served as the head of, the Jacobs Center for Communication and
Information Technologies (CCIT). Prof. Zeevi’s career
combined significant contributions to academia, high-tech industry and academic
public service. He has served on various Technion,
national and international committees, including being a member of the Technion Board of Governors and Council (1993-1996;
1999-2001; 2004-2008), the Technion R&D
Foundation (1986-1989; 1999-2001), Board of Bicora
("First") Foundation, Clore Scholars Programme, Rashi Foundation Forum, member and chairman of various committees of the Israel Council for Higher Education, executive committee of the Technion
100 Club, and a Vice Chairman of the general assembly of Academia Rodinesis (Stockholm, 1988-2008). As an academician and
educator, he authored or co-authored over 450 journal and conference
publications and technical reports, and supervised over 80 dissertations. He is a Fellow of the Rodin
Academy and of
the SPIE. In 1983 he received the Klein Research Award, in 1993 the Herschel
Rich Technion Innovation Award, in 2003 the Taub Prize for Excellence in Research, and in 2015 the Elsevier Award of Excellence.
Prof. Zeevi is the co-inventor of over 100 patents and patent
applications. His work on automatic gain control in vision and on
super-resolution led to the development by i
Sight of the Adaptive Sensitivity Camera that mimics the eye in its high
dynamic range. In addition to co-founding i
Sight, his technological and entrepreneurial activities included also the
co-founding of Ultraguide, CByond, CrossID and
LCB. He is a co-founder of Cortica
Ltd.; a provider of its innovative Image2Text technology and search-by-content
services over the internet and mobile networks. He serves as Chief
Scientist and member of the board of Cortica. He is the co-founder and was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Visual
Communication and Image Representation published by Elsevier, and the
co-editor of three books.