Zeev Farbman


Zeev Farbman is an Israeli entrepreneur and the CEO and Co-Founder of Lightricks.

Early life and Education

Zeev Farbman was born in Zaporizhia on September 9, 1979. He grew up in Yukutia, Russia. He immigrated to Netanya, Israel when he was 13.
He received his PhD from Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Computer Science and was under the guidance of Prof. Dani Leshinski and Prof. Raanan Fattal.
Most of his research was focused on computational photography and published at ACM Transactions on Graphics at SIGGRAPH conference. At Hebrew University he wrote a paper on Diffusion maps for edge-aware image editing. His research on tone mapping of HDR images was implemented in MATLAB.
He quit his studies to co-found Lightricks along with Nir Pochter, Yaron Inger, Amit Goldstein and Itai Tsiddon.

Lightricks

The company began in two apartments but has since moved into the Hebrew University campus. They also have offices in London, Germany and New York. Farbman believes his role is to lead the team of developers, designers and researchers building apps that give users creative license to produce their own visual material.
Pictures of a sleeping Farbman went viral when they were turned into memes.

Personal

In his spare time, he practices Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

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