Professor Kemelmacher-Shlizerman is an expert in 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 Director of the UW Reality Lab, as well as, Principal Scientist in Google. 

In Google Ira leads the Google's Shopping Gen AI visuals teams focusing on Virtual Try-On, 3d, product videos, etc. with the goal of 10x improvement of shopping journeys.  

Before that, Ira founded a startup, Dreambit, which was 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, and Ira spend 2 years in Meta as a scientist. Earlier in her career she built and launched the Face Movies feature at Google. It allowed 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 could reconstruct the Mona Lisa's face! The reconstruction is shown in the lobby of  Weizmann Institute Ziskind building. 

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.