Tal Hassner
Co-Founder And Chief Technology Officer at WEIR.AI
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTal Hassner is a seasoned AI scientist and technology leader with a decade of experience building and scaling computer vision and machine learning systems, now co-founding WEIR.AI as CTO in Sunnyvale. He led large, production-grade efforts at Meta and AWS—overhauling face recognition and multilingual OCR pipelines and launching AWS Rekognition’s face product—bridging research and engineering to ship robust AI at massive scale. An academic by training (PhD, Weizmann Institute) and former associate professor, he has a track record of translating cutting-edge research in face detection, deepfake/GenAI detection and OCR into commercial products and regulatory-ready tooling. Known for shepherding multidisciplinary teams and founding research labs, he brings both entrepreneurship and deep technical authorship to stealth-stage ventures. Notably, his career includes shaping technologies that moved from IARPA-backed research to real-world deployment and company acquisitions, reflecting an uncommon blend of scientific rigor and product impact.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, PhD Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Weizmann Institute of Science
Github Skills (20)
face10
pose9
extraction9
face-recognition9
pipeline9
segmentation9
deepfake9
computer-vision8
face-detection8
estimate8
computer-graphics8
face-alignment8
projection7
deep-learning7
renderer6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
YuvalNirkin/face_swap
Apr 2017 - Apr 2018
End-to-end, automatic face swapping pipeline
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes, 1 issue in 11 months
end-to-endpipelineswappingdeepfakedeep-learning
TalHassner/home
May 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:261 commits, 285 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
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