Gil Shamai

Gil Shamai is working toward the PhD degree at the Geometric Image Processing (GIP) laboratory, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology. He is a veteran of the Technion undergraduate Excellence Program and his research was recognized by being the recipient of several awards, including the Meyer Prize, Finzi Prize, and Sherman Interdisciplinary Graduate School Fellowship. His main interests includes theoretical and computational methods in metric geometry and their application to problems in manifold learning, multidimensional scaling procedures and fast geodesics computation, as well as medical imaging and machine learning.