Oron Nir is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft with nine years of applied AI and computer vision experience, currently leading R&D for Azure AI Video Indexer on live edge video streaming and vision-language semantic search. His work spans large-scale face detection and grouping across massive video archives, multimodal topic classification using language models, and productionizing audio and NLP pipelines for conversation intelligence. He blends deep research (PhD candidate in Computer Science) with hands-on engineering—shipping scalable ML systems in Azure and earlier real-time bidding and optimization platforms. Based in Israel, Oron has a track record of turning complex multimodal research into reliable cloud services and is notable for bridging academic rigor with practical, production-grade video AI solutions.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Reichman University
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Industrial Engineering Data Science and Business Analytics, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Industrial Engineering Data Science and Business Analytics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Coding video applications with Azure Video Indexer Python wrapper
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