Technion

is one of Israel's seven universities, and its only engineering school. Established in 1924, it has produced 70,000 graduates to date. Today the Technion has 700 faculty teaching 10,000 undergraduate students and 3,500 graduate students.

The Computer Science department

within the Technion has 54 faculty, teaching 1,300 undergraduates and 200 graduate students. The faculty offers 5 study tracks, and contains 14 research labs.

The Center for Graphics and Geometric Computing (CGGC),

based in the Technion's Computer Science department is a research center studying computer graphics, solid modeling, visualization, discrete and computational geometry, image understanding and processing, geometric software and computing, computer-aided design and manufacturing, as well as related topics in discrete mathematics, computational biology and chemistry and geographic information systems. The CGGC houses 3 faculty and approximately 25 research staff and students. It offers six undergraduate and graduate course on computer graphics, geometric modeling and computational geometry.

The Vision and Image Sciences Laboratory (VISL)

Research in computer graphics and shape modeling is also performed in the Technion's Electrical Engineering department , which is comparable in size to the Computer Science department.

Both the CGGC and the VISL are funded by the Israeli government and European grants. They are also funded by various bi-national funding agencies, such as the German-Israeli Fund (GIF), the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), and others. The two centers have extensive ties with local Israeli industry, including RAFAEL, Elbit, the Israel Aircraft Industries, Optitex and Neomagic. Ties also exist with foreign companies, such as Dassault Systemes and Autodesk Inc.

The four PI's representing the Technion are:

• Craig Gotsman - specializing in geometry processing.
• Gershon Elber - specializing in free-form geometrical modeling.
• Gill Barequet - specializing in computational and combinatorial geometry.
• Ayellet Tal - specializing in geometry and shape analysis and recognition.