Prof. Lihi Zelnik-Manor is the Executive Vice President for Innovation and Industry Relations of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Prof. Zelnik-Manor joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Technion in 2007 and became a courtesy member at the Data and Decisions Faculty in 2023. She served as vice-dean of graduate studies in ECE between 2021-2023 and vice-dean for undergraduate students in 2014. Between 2018-2021 she was a Senior Director and the General Manager of Alibaba’s R&D center in Israel, leading its establishment and growth into an end-to-end site delivering products with millions of users, based on state-of-the-art technology. Prior to that she was a visiting Associate Professor at CornellTech during its establishment years, and a Post-doctoral scholar at Caltech. Her main area of expertise is Computer Vision, in which she performs research as well as holds industry advisory roles. Prof Zelnik-Manor has done extensive community contribution, serving as General Chair of CVPR’21 and ECCV’22, Program Chair of CVPR 16, Associate Editor at TPAMI, served multiple times as Area Chair at CVPR, ECCV and was on the award committee of ACCV’18, CVPR’19 and CVPR’22.
Faculty:Electrical and Computer Engineering
