Professor Kemelmacher-Shlizerman works on computer vision and computer graphics with focus on Generative AI. Ira currently holds the positions of Full Tenured Professor of Computer Science at the Allen School, and Principal Scientist in Google. In Google Ira leads the Google's Shopping Gen AI with the goal of creating the best and most beautiful shopping experience for everyone. 

Ira's PhD and MSc is in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the Weizmann Institute of Science. She received the Google faculty award, Madrona prize, GeekWire Innovation of the Year Award, covers of CACM and SIGGRAPH, best student paper honorable mention at CVPR'21, and best demo runner up MobiSys'22. She is a senior member of IEEE and Distinguished Member of ACM.

Fun facts: 

Previously, Ira founded a startup, Dreambit--a search engine that allows people imagine how they might look like in various hair styles, hats, and environments--acquired by Meta. She also tech transferred to Google Face Movies--30 sec videos summarizing many years of photos. 

During her PhD she invented a state of the art method for 3d reconstruction of faces from a single internet image. Her reconstruction of the Mona Lisa is still shown in the lobby of  Weizmann Institute Ziskind building. 

Ira's first name is pronounced as: Ee-ra