Dr. Ayelet Akselrod-Ballin, Head and CTO of Sheba Arc AI Center

Ayelet Akselrod-Ballin brings over two decades of experience at the intersection of academia and industry, specializing in cutting-edge technologies in computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing, with a strong focus on healthcare applications. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Computational Radiology Laboratory at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital, and holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute of Science. Ayelet previously served as VP of R&D at Zebra Medical Vision, where under her leadership the company achieved its 11th FDA clearances for AI-based medical imaging solutions. Before that, she led medical imaging research at IBM Research. Most recently, she was a senior director of algorithms at Mobileye and Adjunct lecturer at Reichman university. In her current position, Ayelet is the head and CTO of the AI Center at the ARC and the Sheba Medical Center.