Gil Elbaz, Co-founder & CTO of Datagen – Interview Series

Gil's thesis research was focused on 3D Computer Vision and has been published at CVPR, the top computer vision research conference in the world. Datagen is a pioneer in the new field of Simulated Data, a subset of synthetic data, which concentrates on photo-realistically recreating the world around us. The company launched from stealth with over $18M in funding in March 2021 and is now working with a number of Fortune 100 companies in augmented/virtual reality, robotics, and automotive, including the majority of the top U.S. tech giants. What initially attracted you to robotics and machine learning? Sci-Fi books, like Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series and iRobot always got me thinking about a future in which robots were an integral part of our day-to-day lives.