Eyal Ofek
Principal Research Lead
Microsoft

Dr. Eyal Ofek is currently a Principal Research Lead at MSN Applied Research Lab, Redmond WA.

Between 2004 and 2005 he was a Researcher and Project Lead at the Platforms and Devices Center, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) where he has worked since 2004. Eyal is also an affiliated member of the Visual Computing Group . 2004.

Before joining Microsoft, Eyal was a member of many start-up companies (including 2 companies founded by him).
His last position was managing the software R&D at 3DV Systems LTD, developing real time depth cameras and their applications for areas such as TV broadcasting, special effects and 3D environment reconstruction.

Eyal's experience ranges between areas such as Photogrametry, vision, rendering and graphic editing.
His research interests are mainly in Computer vision, IBR and rendering areas.

He held a visiting lecture position at the school of computer science, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzelia, Israel.

Eyal received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Eyal has also a background as a book cover illustrator and a comics strip artist.

Program Comittee Member - ACM GIS 2008.

Program Comittee Member - ACM GIS 2007.

Program Comittee Member - CVPR 2006.

Program Comittee Member - Pacific Graphics 2005.