Oren Freifeld
Associate Professor
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolOren Freifeld is an Associate Professor and founder of the Vision, Inference, and Learning (VIL) group at Ben-Gurion University, with 12 years of research and academic experience bridging computer vision and machine learning. His group focuses on unsupervised and self-supervised methods for image, video, and time-series analysis and is one of the few in Israel publishing consistently at both top-tier CV and ML conferences. Before returning to BGU he was a postdoctoral associate at MIT/CSAIL’s Sensing, Learning and Inference group and holds advanced degrees in applied mathematics from Brown with visiting PhD work at Stanford. He combines rigorous theoretical training with practical system-building, producing work that speaks to both inference theory and real-world visual data challenges. A less obvious strength is his sustained track record of cultivating a research group that crosses traditional conference boundaries, signaling both breadth and leadership in emerging ML-for-vision directions.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
ScM; PhD, Applied Mathematics, ScM; PhD, Applied Mathematics at Brown UniversityVisiting PhD Student, Electrical Engineering, Visiting PhD Student, Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (34)
mixture-model10
bayesian10
segmentation10
multinomial10
gaussian10
distributed-computing9
parallel-computing9
hdp9
decorators9
bayesian-inference9
julia9
clustering9
kmeans8
mcmc8
inference8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
freifeld/triangledeformations
Jan 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
BGU-CS-VIL/fastScsp
Dec 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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