Ron Kimmel

Ron Kimmel (Hebrew: רון קימל‎, b. 1963) is a professor of Computer Science at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. He holds a D.Sc. degree in electrical engineering (1995) from the Technion, and he was a post-doc at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Labs, and a visiting professor at Stanford University. He has worked in various areas of image and shape analysis in computer vision, image processing, and computer graphics. Kimmel's interest in recent years has been non-rigid shape processing and analysis, medical imaging, computational biometry, deep learning, numerical optimization of problems with a geometric flavor, and applications of metric and differential geometry. Kimmel is an author of two books, an editor of one, and an author of numerous articles. He is the founder of the Geometric Image Processing Lab , and a founder and advisor of several successful image processing and analysis companies.

Ron Kimmel
Ron Kimmel 2008
Born	Haifa, Israel
Nationality	Israel
Known for	Geodesic Active Contours Image Segmentation Non-rigid shape analysis Computer aided diagnostics Intel RealSense technology
Awards	SIAM Fellow 2019 IEEE Fellow 2009 Helmholtz-Test of Time-Award 2013
Scientific career
Fields	Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics
Institutions	Technion, UCB Stanford
Doctoral advisor	Alfred Bruckstein, Nahum Kiryati

Kimmel's contributions include the development of fast marching methods for triangulated manifolds (together with James Sethian), the geodesic active contours algorithm for image segmentation, a geometric framework for image filtering (named Beltrami flow after the Italian mathematician Eugenio Beltrami), and the Generalized Multidimensional Scaling (together with his students the Bronstein brothers) with which he was able to compute the Gromov-Hausdorff distance between surfaces.

In 2003, he appeared in an interview to WNBC on the use of geometric approaches in three-dimensional face recognition. In 2011 his cofounded company - InVision was acquired by Intel. Since then he played a leading role in the research and development of Intel RealSense technologies.