Zeev Farbman | |
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 Farbman in 2022 | |
| Born | September 9, 1979 Zaporizhia, Ukraine |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Known for | Co-Founder of Lightricks |
| Website | lightricks |
Zeev Farbman (born September 9, 1979) is an Israeli entrepreneur and the CEO and co-founder of Lightricks.
Zeev Farbman was born in Zaporizhia [1] on September 9, 1979. He grew up in Yukutia, Russia. [2] He immigrated to Netanya, Israel when he was 13. [3] 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. [4] 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. [5] His research on tone mapping of HDR images was implemented in MATLAB (tonemapfarbman). [6] He quit his studies to co-found Lightricks along with Nir Pochter, Yaron Inger, Amit Goldstein and Itai Tsiddon.
The company began in two apartments, [7] but has since moved into the Hebrew University campus [8] and opened offices in Haifa [9] and Beersheba. They also have sites outside of Israel, in London, [10] and Chicago. [11] 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. [12] Pictures of a sleeping Farbman went viral when they were turned into memes. [13] [14]
In his spare time, he practices Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. [15]
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