Biography

Prof. Amnon Shashua is a world-renowned expert in AI, computer vision, natural language processing, and other related fields. For his transformative work in AI, he has been named to the 2025 TIME100 AI in the leaders category, a list recognizing the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence worldwide. In 2023, he received the Israel Prize, the nation’s top civilian honor for contributions to society, and had previously been named the 2020 Dan David Prize laureate in the field of artificial intelligence and the 2022 Mobility Innovator by the Automotive Hall of Fame. Shashua has founded six companies using applied AI in various fields from automotive to assisted wearables to fintech: Mobileye, OrCam, AI21 Labs, Mentee Robotics, and "One Zero," the first digital bank in Israel. His latest venture, AAI Technologies, was founded together with Prof. Shai Shalev-Shwartz in 2024, with a mission to crack the code of superintelligence. Prof. Shashua serves as President & CEO of Mobileye, which was acquired by Intel in 2017 in what was then the largest acquisition in Israeli history and went public again in 2022 on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbol MBLY. Prof. Shashua holds the Sachs Chair in Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has published over 160 papers in the field of machine learning and computational vision, and holds over 200 patents.