She received her Ph.D in computer science and applied mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2009, then spent three years as a postdoctoral researcher at UW CSE, and started as tenure-track faculty at UW Computer Science in spring 2013. Ira works in computer vision and computer graphics, with a particular interest to develop computational tools to model people from the vast visual data that is captured all over the world with the goal of enabling breakthrough advances in recognition, virtual reality, and health. Ira received the Google faculty award, her work “Moving Portraits” was selected to the cover of the Communications of the ACM, Research Highlights, and tech transferred to Google. Her work “Illumination aware age progression” and its application to missing children search featured by interviews on CBS, NBC, and others.