Academic Shashua has been on the computer science faculty at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 1996. In 1999 he was appointed as an associate
professor and in 2003 received full professorship. From 2002 to 2005 he was the head of the engineering and computer science school at the Hebrew University. Shashua has held the Sachs chair in computer science at the Hebrew University since 2007. Shashua's work includes early visual processing of
saliency and grouping mechanisms, visual recognition and learning,
image synthesis for animation and graphics, theory of
computer vision in the areas of multiple-view geometry and multi-view tensors, multilinear algebraic systems in vision and learning, primal/dual optimization for approximate inference in MRF and Graphical models, and (since 2014) deep layered networks. In 2026 he was elected to the
US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) as an international member of its Class of 2026 for his contributions to computer vision and its application to autonomous driving technology.
Business In 1995, Shashua founded CogniTens, which was sold to
Hexagon AB in 2007. In 1999, Shashua co-founded
Mobileye, a company that develops systems-on-chip and
computer vision algorithms for driving assistance systems, as well as
autonomous driving technology. On August 1, 2014, Mobileye launched its IPO on the NYSE which was the biggest Israeli IPO ever in the US raising approximately $1 billion at a market cap of $5.3 billion. In 2010, Shashua co-founded
OrCam, an Israeli company which launched an assistive device for the
visually impaired based on computer vision capabilities. In August 2017,
Intel acquired Mobileye for approximately $15.3 billion. Shashua became a senior vice president at Intel, in addition to his title of President and CEO of Mobileye. In 2017, he also co-founded
AI21 Labs. In 2020, he was awarded the
Dan David Prize for his work in Artificial Intelligence. In October 2022,
Mobileye went public again, trading on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange with Shashua as its CEO. In 2022, he co-founded Mentee Robotics with Prof. Shai Shalev-Shwartz and Prof. Lior Wolf to develop intelligent humanoid robots. In 2023, he founded AAI Technologies with Prof. Shai Shalev-Shwartz, Dr. Yoav Levine, Dr. Or Sharir, Dr. Noam Weiss, and Dr. Gal Benyamini. The company develops expert-based artificial intelligence (Expert AI) systems. In September 2025, the startup was on track to becoming a
unicorn. In January 2026, it was announced that Mentee Robotics, co-founded by Shashua, would be sold to Mobileye for $900 million. == Philanthropy ==