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Executive Vice President for Innovation and Industry Relations

Prof. Lihi Zelnik-Manor

E-mail evpii@technion.ac.il

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The Office of the Executive Vice President for Innovation and Industry Relations is dedicated to developing platforms for interaction between researchers and students at the Technion with business and industry, in Israel and worldwide. Our mission is to expand the impact and scope of the research activity carried out at the Technion by creating possibilities and promoting collaborations with industry:

Entrepreneurship and commercialization: support for the Technion community to launch companies, legal advice, intellectual property management, filing patents, license agreements, recruiting investors and entrepreneurs. These activities are led by T3 – Technion Technology Transfer.
Collaborations: with large international and national companies and enterprises, as well as small and medium-sized companies and enterprises. The activity includes strategic partnerships, research collaborations, technology transfer, industrial presence on the Technion campus, researchers in the service of industry, students in the service of industry.
Knowledge transfer: training courses, workshops, seminars, student projects.

Contact details

Ronit Dagan

Chief of Staff - Innovation and Industry Relations in Office of VP for Innovation

073-378-1900

evpii.sru@technion.ac.il

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Senate Building Floor 4 Room 400

Coral Brosh

Secretary of the Executive Vice President for Innovation and Industry Relations

073-378-1919

sec.evpii@technion.ac.il

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Senate Building Floor 4 Room 400

Biography

Prof. Lihi Zelnik-Manor is the Executive Vice President for Innovation and Industry Relations of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Prof. Zelnik-Manor joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Technion in 2007 and became a courtesy member at the Data and Decisions Faculty in 2023. She served as vice-dean of graduate studies in ECE between 2021-2023 and vice-dean for undergraduate students in 2014. Between 2018-2021 she was a Senior Director and the General Manager of Alibaba’s R&D center in Israel, leading its establishment and growth into an end-to-end site delivering products with millions of users, based on state-of-the-art technology. Prior to that she was a visiting Associate Professor at CornellTech during its establishment years, and a Post-doctoral scholar at Caltech. Her main area of expertise is Computer Vision, in which she performs research as well as holds industry advisory roles. Prof Zelnik-Manor has done extensive community contribution, serving as General Chair of CVPR’21 and ECCV’22, Program Chair of CVPR’16, Associate Editor at TPAMI, served multiple times as Area Chair at CVPR, ECCV and was on the award committee of ACCV’18, CVPR’19 and CVPR’22. Looking forward she will serve as Program Chair of CVPR’27.