The Chaim Weizmann Prize will be awarded to Prof. Ron Kimmel of the Technion
The prize will be awarded to him for his work in visual data processing and breakthroughs in medical diagnosis and cancer treatment
Prof. Ron Kimmel of the Taub Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion has won the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality Prize in Exact Sciences in memory of Dr. Chaim Weizmann. The prize will be awarded to him for his groundbreaking work in the theoretical and practical study of methods for geometric processing of visual information, and for his work in recent years at the intersection of artificial intelligence and computational pathology – work that is revolutionizing the speed and accuracy of medical diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. The Weizmann Prize, in the amount of 18,000 NIS, will be awarded to him at a festive ceremony on Thursday, November 6, in the events hall of the Tel Aviv Municipality building in the presence of Tel Aviv-Jaffa Mayor Ron Huldai.
Prof. Kimmel, who completed all his degrees at the Technion, is a professor at the Taub Faculty of Computer Science and at the Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He works in a variety of fields, including image analysis, image processing, computer vision, and computer graphics.
Prof. Kimmel joins a distinguished line of past Technion laureates, including: Prof. Franz H. (Chaim) Ollendorff (1949), Prof. David Ginzburg (1953), Prof. Nathan Rosen (1968), Distinguished Prof. Avram Hershko (1987), Distinguished Prof. Dan Shechtman (1993), Distinguished Prof. Ilan Marek (2015), and Prof. Michael Elad (2021).
About the Prize
The Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality has been awarding the prize in memory of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization and the first President of the State of Israel, since 1943. The prize is intended to encourage and stimulate researchers in the exact sciences who reside and work in Israel.
Together with Prof. Kimmel, Prof. Michal Feldman of the Faculty of Exact Sciences at Tel Aviv University will receive the prize for her groundbreaking contributions to algorithmic game theory, and in particular for laying the theoretical foundations of algorithmic contract theory.
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