Prof. Ilan Shimshoni received his B.Sc. in mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, his M.Sc. in computer science from the Weizmann Institute of Science, and his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC). Prof. Ilan was a post-doctorate fellow at the faculty of computer science at Technion from 1995 to 1998 and was a member of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management from 1998 to 2005. He joined the Department of Information Systems (IS) at Haifa University in October 2005. Ilan Shimshoni's main research interests are in the fields of computer vision and robotics, especially topics that lie on the border between the two fields, e.g., using computer vision to help robots perform their tasks. In recent years he has branched into the field of data analysis/data mining, dealing with problems such as clustering, non-parametric statistics, and algorithms for approximate nearest-neighbor search. He has also been working in the field of 3D shape analysis. Most of the work that he performed in this area, though basic research in nature, was with the field of archaeology in mind. He was a member of the GRAVITATE EU Horizon 2020 research project, which developed algorithms for the cultural heritage field. In recent years, with the development of deep learning-based algorithms, he started working in this field in various application domains.