About
About
Ira's happy place ;)
Professor Kemelmacher-Shlizerman works on computer vision and computer graphics with focus on Generative AI. She is a Full Tenured Professor of Computer Science at the Allen School.
Ira also is a Principal Scientist in Google where she leads Google Shopping's Generative Media org to enable the best shopping experience for billions of people.
Her Ph.D. and M.Sc. 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, and best demo runner up MobiSys.
Ira is an IEEE fellow and ACM Distinguished Member.
Fun facts:
A while back, Ira founded a startup, Dreambit, that was acquired by Meta. Dreambit was a search engine that allows people imagine how they might look like in various hair styles, hats, and environments.
During her postdoc, she tech transferred Photobios to Google Face Movies--30 sec videos summarizing many years of photos.
During her PhD, she invented a method for 3d reconstruction of faces from a single internet image, even from the Mona Lisa painting. Her reconstruction of the Mona Lisa is still shown in the lobby of Weizmann Institute Ziskind building as an art installation.
Ira's first name is pronounced as: Ee-ra.