Zeev Farbman (born September 9, 1979) is an Israeli entrepreneur and the CEO and Co-Founder of

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Early life and education

Zeev Farbman was born in

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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 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

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

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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 (tonemapfarbman). He quit his studies to co-found

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 Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ; pt, jiu-jitsu brasileiro ) is a self-defence martial art and combat sport based on grappling, ground fighting (ne-waza) and submission holds. BJJ focuses on the skill of taking an opponent to the ground, control ...

References

External links

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