Ron Kimmel, PhD, Professor,

Ron Kimmel is a Professor of Computer Science (and Electrical and Computer Engineering by courtesy) at the Technion where he holds the Montreal Chair in Sciences.

Kimmel’s interest in recent years has been understanding of machine learning, medical imaging and specifically computational oncology/pathology, precision medicine, optimization of solvers to problems with a geometric flavor, and applications of metric, spectral, Riemannian, and differential geometries. Kimmel is an IEEE Fellow and SIAM Fellow for his contributions to image processing, shape reconstruction and geometric analysis. He is the founder of the Geometric Image Processing Lab. and a founder and advisor of several successful image processing and analysis companies.