Professor Kemelmacher-Shlizerman is an expert in computer vision and computer graphics with focus on Generative AI. Ira loves inventing creative applications of computer vision and Gen AI and making them work at scale. 

Ira currently holds the positions of Full Tenured Professor of Computer Science at the Allen School and Director of the UW Reality Lab, as well as, Principal Scientist in Google. She combines academic research and teaching, with building large scale products. 

In Google she invented and built the Virtual Tryon feature, 3d product visualization from just a few photos, and fashion generator. All of these shipped on Google.com and have millions of users daily. If you see a tryon feature anywhere on google or spinning 3d products, that's us! 

In Meta, Ira built a trailers product, face filters, and music to hand movement generator. 

Before that, Ira founded a startup, Dreambit, and was its CEO. It launched a search engine that allows people imagine how they might look like in various hair styles, hats, and environments. The startup was acquired by Meta. 

Ira also invented built and launched the Face Movies feature at Google, while doing her postdoc at UW. It allows you to analyze your photo collection (say 20 years of photos) and create a 30s face movie showing a person changed over time. It launched in Google Picasa (now Google photos). 

Ira's PhD and MSc is in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the Weizmann Institute of Science. During her PhD she invented a state of the art method for 3d reconstruction of faces from a single internet image. It was a breakthrough in 3d modeling as it allowed to estimate face shape of anyone even the Mona Lisa ! The reconstructed Mona Lisa shape is part of Weizmann Institute Ziskind building art exhibition. Ira almost founded a startup to use this technology for games but decided to finish her PhD first.

Ira's research was awarded 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. Ira served as AC and committee of most top conferences in both computer vision and graphics. 

She is a senior member of IEEE and Distinguished Member of ACM.