Amnon Shashua

Amnon Shashua is an Israeli computer scientist and entrepreneur, a professor of computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1999 he co-founded Mobileye, which pioneered camera-based driver-assistance and collision-avoidance systems now used in vehicles worldwide, and he later co-founded OrCam to build assistive devices for the blind. His work has made roads measurably safer and helped establish Israel as a leader in autonomous-vehicle technology.