Michal Irani is a Professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science. She served as the Chair of the Scientific Council of the Weizmann Institute between 2013-2016, and as the Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer-Science between 2022-2025. Michal received her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1994). During 1993-1996 she was a member of the Sarnoff Research Center (Princeton), and joined the Weizmann Institute in 1997. Michal's research interests center around Computer-Vision, Artificial-Intelligence, and decoding information from Brain activity.
Michal received multiple honors and awards, including the Sarnoff Technical Achievement Award (1994), the Alon Fellowship for Outstanding Young Scientists (1998), the Levinson Prize in Mathematics (2003), the IAPR Maria Petrou Prize (2016), the Helmholtz “Test of Time Award” (2017), the Landau Prize in Artificial Intelligence (2019), the Rothschild Prize in Mathematics and Computer Science (2020), the PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award (2025), and several Best-Paper Awards in leading Computer Vision conferences.
In 2023 Michal was elected member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.