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Craig Gotsman
Born (1964-07-28) July 28, 1964 (age 60)
Birmingham, UK
NationalityIsrael, UK
Alma materHebrew University of Jerusalem
Known forFounding Director of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute (NYC), entrepreneur
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsCornell Tech, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorEli Shamir, Daniel Lehmann

Craig Gotsman is a computer science professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech in New York City, as well as a researcher and entrepreneur. He was the Founding Director of the Jacobs Institute during Feb 2012 – Feb 2014.[1] Gotsman has also founded several companies, as well as provided consulting services to many large corporations.[1]

Life

Born in 1964 in Birmingham, Gotsman spent his early childhood in South Africa. His family immigrated to Israel in 1973.[2]

Education

Starting his academic studies at 16, Gotsman was awarded all his degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, graduating with a PhD in Computer Science in 1991. His MSc thesis was supervised by Michael O. Rabin, and his PhD thesis was supervised by Eli Shamir and Daniel Lehmann. He also worked closely with Nati Linial.[2]

Military Service

During 1984-89, Gotsman served as an officer in the Technological R&D Unit of the Israel Defense Forces. He continued to serve in annual reserve duty thereafter, retiring from service in 2003 with the rank of Major.[2]

Academic Career

Specializing in computer graphics and geometry processing, Gotsman was recruited in 1991 to the Computer Science Department at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. In 2005 he co-founded the Center for Graphics and Geometric Computing, and in 2006 he became the first incumbent of the Technion’s Hewlett-Packard Chair in Computer Engineering.[3]

Gotsman was Visiting Professor at Harvard University and Research Scientist at MIT during 2003-2004, Visiting Professor at INRIA, Sophia Antipolis in 2006 and Visiting Professor at ETH Zurich in 2010. Since 2013 he has been on the faculty of Cornell Tech in New York City.[1]

Gotsman has mentored over 50 students at the postgraduate level, served on the editorial boards of computer graphics international journals and served on the program committees of international conferences in computer graphics. He has published over 150 research papers and also holds 10 US patents.[4]

Gotsman is best-known for his work on online maps and aerial imagery and its combination with 3D terrain elevation data (a precursor to Google Earth), compression of 3D datasets, which was incorporated into the MPEG-4 compression standard, the use of spectral methods in geometry processing, and various methods for analyzing and processing discrete geometric data sets, in particular triangle mesh data, both static and dynamic. In recent years, Gotsman has developed a number of software applications taking advantage of the emerging new generation of range imaging cameras.[1]

Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute

Gotsman played a leading role in the formation of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech.[5] Cornell Tech is an applied sciences campus dedicated to fostering entrepreneurial engineers, a project conceived and driven by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the New York City Economic Development Corporation. [6] In 2011, Gotsman helped write the proposal to establish an Applied Sciences campus, submitted by Cornell University and Technion to the City of New York. The proposal subsequently won the bid, competing against a number of groups of international universities, including Stanford University.[7][8]. Technion was cited as a key player in recognition of its contribution to the emergence of Israel as a global technological superpower, as documented in the book "Startup Nation".[9]

In 2011, Gotsman was appointed Deputy Senior Vice-President at Technion, responsible for the joint Technion-Cornell venture. In Feb 2012 he was appointed Founding Director of the joint Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at the Cornell Tech campus in New York, a position he held for two years.[10] In April 2013, the Institute received a $133M naming gift from Joan and Irwin M. Jacobs of San Diego.[11]

Entrepreneurship

Gotsman co-founded three startup companies: Virtue3D was founded in 1997 and developed advanced technologies for Web-based 3D computer graphics based on Technion intellectual property. The principal investors were Zohar and Yehuda Zisapel and Eurofund.[12] The technology was eventually acquired by German Mental Images, itself later acquired by NVIDIA. Estimotion - a precursor to Waze – was founded in 2000 and developed technologies for real-time traffic-based applications for cellular phones. The principal investors were Partner/Orange Communications and Shlomo Group. Estimotion was acquired by British ITIS Holdings, itself later acquired by INRIX.[13] CatchEye [14] – commercializing 3D camera-related technology that Gotsman developed with colleagues at ETH Zurich - was founded in 2014.[15]

Gotsman also co-founded in 2006 an active consulting company - Geometrika [16] – which develops graphics and geometric software technologies.

Extension

Outreach

While at Technion, Gotsman founded its Industrial Affiliates Program and Alumni Program and served as Associate Dean for External Relations.[17][18]

Industrial Activity

Gotsman served as consultant for HP Labs in Haifa and spent summers during 1993-1996 at HP Labs in Palo Alto. He has also consulted for companies in Israel, Europe and the USA, including Nokia, Shell Oil, Disney, Intel, Rafael, Geodetics and Samsung.[1]

Public Service

In 2014, Gotsman served as a technology expert on the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority Reinvention Commission, appointed by the governor of NY State.[19] In its report, the commission recommended a number of reforms to the public transportation systems in New York City. Gotsman is also active in the entrepreneurial community in New York City, in particular through the New York City Economic Development Corporation.[20]


References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Craig Gotsman". Cornell Tech. Cornell. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  2. ^ a b c "Craig Gotsman" (PDF). AJC New York. AJC New York. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  3. ^ "HP Chair In Computing Engineering Ceremony". Technion. Technion. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  4. ^ "Gotsman, Craig". USPTO. USPTO. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  5. ^ "Technion-Cornell NYC partnership given jump start by Google". Focus - Technion. Focus - Technion. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  6. ^ "Mayor Bloomberg, Cornell President Skorton And Technion President Lavie Announce Historic Partnership to Build a New Applied Sciences Campus on Roosevelt Island". NYC.gov. NYC.gov. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  7. ^ Wong, Marisa. "Cornell NYC Tech: Building a Culture for Innovation on Roosevelt Island". MetroFocus. MetroFocus. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  8. ^ Harman, Danna. "The Technion: Israel's Hard Drive". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  9. ^ Senor, Dan, and Saul Singer. Start-up nation: The story of Israel's economic miracle. Random House LLC, 2011.
  10. ^ Perez-Pena, Richard. "Three Named to Lead Science School". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  11. ^ Kusisto, Laura. "Cornell Tech Campus Gets $133 Million Gift". The Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  12. ^ "Virtue3D". CrunchBase. CrunchBase. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  13. ^ "O2 UK and ITIS Holdings to trial traffic-flow system". Telecompaper. Telecompaper. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  14. ^ "CatchEye". CatchEye. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  15. ^ Michael, Sean. "CatchEye and the Kinect allow you to have eye contact over Skype". WinBeta. WinBeta. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  16. ^ "Geometrika". Geometrika. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  17. ^ "NYC tech campus top leadership team named". Cornell Chronicle. Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  18. ^ "The Technion's Computer Science Industrial Affiliates Program". Technion. Technion. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  19. ^ Hawkins, AndrewJ. "MTA 'reinvention commission' takes shape". Crains New York. Crains New York. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  20. ^ Hawkins, AndrewJ. "Smart and Sustainable Cities Advisory Board". world2nyc. New York International. Retrieved 25 March 2015.


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