He received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in math and computer science Cum Laude from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and a Ph.D. in computer science in 2000. He spent two years as a post-doctoral fellow at the computational visualization center at the University of Texas in Austin. In 2006 he held the position of visiting scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs in Cambridge MA. He has also had affiliations with Disney Research, Lawrence Livermore national laboratory, and a number of high-tech companies in Israel (Primesense, Sensomatix, Paieon medical, and more). His research interests include geometric modeling, computer graphics, visualization, and machine learning. © McGill University 2017