In the reasons for the award committee it was stated that Shashua is the ambassador of Israeli excellence, daring and creativity in the world
One of the recipients of the Israel Lifetime Achievement Award is Prof. Amnon Shashua, an artificial intelligence researcher at the Hebrew University and the founder of a number of prominent companies in the field, led by Mobileye. The prize committee consists of Prof. Yitzhak Kreis (Chairman), Miriam Peretz, Yeftah Ron-Tal, Moshe Adri and Naomi Stochiner.
Shashua is a professor of computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has made a significant contribution to the fields of artificial intelligence, computer vision and machine learning. He has published many research papers and received more than 70 patents for his work.
He co-founded with Ziv Aviram Mobileye, a company that developed a technological system to warn against traffic accidents using machine vision and currently focuses on solutions for autonomous driving. - In 2014 Mobileye was issued on Wall Street and in 2017 was sold to Intel for 15.3 billion dollars. The company was recently reissued by Intel and today the company trades at a value of approximately 33 billion dollars.
In addition to Mobileye, Shashua also founded the company Orcam that develops glasses for the visually impaired and the artificial intelligence company AI21 Labs and the robotics company Manti Robotics.
"An Israeli success story - he is the ambassador of Israeli excellence, daring and creativity in the world." The committee also noted that Prof. Shashua "has a decisive role in Israel's transformation into a world power in the field of royal intelligence and life-saving smart transportation."
According to the members of the committee, Prof. Shashua is "a pioneering entrepreneur and scientist who contributed and contributes significantly to the Israeli economy, he is a social leader in the development and creation of jobs and works tirelessly to fulfill his vision, out of a sense of mission, Zionism, and adherence to the goal. Alongside all this, he engages in extensive philanthropic activity for the benefit of Israeli society in all its aspects."
Prof. Shashua has won several awards and honors over the years, including the Outstanding Scientist Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012 and the Intel Award for Contribution to Cyber Technologies in 2018.
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