Dr. Dan Levi is currently a technical fellow at General Motors R&D Israel, leading the computer vision and perception research group. He received a BSc degree with honours in mathematics and computer science from Tel-Aviv University, in 2000, and MSc and PhD degrees in applied mathematics and computer science from the Weizmann Institute, in 2004 and 2009, respectively. In his studies he researched human and computer vision under the supervision of Prof. Shimon Ullman. Since 2007, he has been conducting industrial computer vision research and development at several companies, including General Motors and Elbit Systems, Israel.
The Pop in Your Job – What drives you? Why do you love your job?
I am excited to tackle on a day-to-day basis the challenging research problems involved in developing the perception for autonomous driving. The most intriguing question guiding my research is: how do we, as humans, perceive the world around us?