14 Facts About Amnon Shashua

Amnon Shashua is an Israeli computer scientist, businessman and philanthropist.

Amnon Shashua is the Sachs Professor of Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, president and chief executive officer of the autonomous driving and driver-assistance technology company Mobileye, Co-founder of the artificial vision devices company OrCam, Founder and owner of ONE ZERO digital bank, and chairman of artificial intelligence company AI21 Labs.

Amnon Shashua was ranked 20th among the top wealthiest people in Israel, in 2024.

Amnon Shashua was born in Ramat Gan, Israel, to parents of Iraqi origin.

Amnon Shashua attended the ORT school in Givatayim for his early education in computer engineering.

Amnon Shashua has held the Sachs chair in computer science at the Hebrew University since 2007.

In 1995, Amnon Shashua founded CogniTens, which was sold to Hexagon AB in 2007.

In 1999, Amnon Shashua co-founded Mobileye, a company that develops systems-on-chip and computer vision algorithms for driving assistance systems, as well as autonomous driving technology.

In 2010, Amnon Shashua co-founded OrCam, an Israeli company which launched an assistive device for the visually impaired based on computer vision capabilities.

Amnon Shashua became a senior vice president at Intel, in addition to his title of President and CEO of Mobileye.

Amnon Shashua received his first prize in the 2004 Kaye Innovation award, and the 2005 Mifal HaPayis Landau Prize for Science and Research in the area of Exact Sciences - Robotics.

On Israeli Independence Day 2017, Amnon Shashua was chosen to light a torch at the national ceremony on Mt.

In 2019, Amnon Shashua was recognized by the Society for Imaging Science and Technology as the Electronic Imaging Scientist of the Year.

Amnon Shashua was appointed as an honorary professor at the Global Institute of Future Technology of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University.