RTC -VISION - Key Persons
Dr. Rubner is a world-renowned expert in computer vision with over two decades of experience in business and academia. He published a book (Perceptual Metrics for Image Database Navigation) and over 20 publications in professional journals.
Before founding RTC-Vision, he managed an R&D group at Applied Materials, served as CTO at Jigami, consulted for Xerox PARC, and worked as a Software Engineer at Scitex Corporation. He was also responsible for several R&D projects during his service in the Israel Defense Forces.
Dr. Rubner is a graduate of the IDF Computer Academy (with distinction) and holds a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (Summa Cum Laude) from the Technion Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, where he specialized in Computer Vision. In 2017, he received the Helmholtz Prize from the IEEE Computer Society.
Lior was the chairman of SAIPS, a computer vision company, which Ford Motors acquired, and still acts as executive board member. He was the managing director at Jerusalem Capital VC, active chairman at SecureDimentions (acquired by MSF), founder and CEO of ProSeed VC (listed on TLV Stock Exchange), and director at various other public and private companies, including over a decade at Etgar Assets Management, a subsidiary of Mizrahi Bank, where he served as the chairman of the audit committee.
Lior also worked at Batucha Investments, managing six of ten company branches. He holds an M.A. in economics from TLV University. He also volunteers on a search and rescue team and acts as a Co-Active life coach.
With 20 years of extensive industrial R&D experience, Nir Avrahami brings knowledge and expertise in Computer Vision, including Machine and Deep Learning, Multi-View Geometry, Optimization, Registration, and Low-Level Vision. Before joining RTC in 2008, Nir held the position of CTO at Ioimage, where he also established and managed the algorithms team. He also served as a Senior Algorithms Developer at CogniTens 3D Visions Systems. He holds an M.Sc. (summa cum laude) in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University.