Dr. Kisilev graduated from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in 2002 with a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. Before joining Huawei, he held various senior and lead researcher positions in Hewlett-Packard and IBM Research Labs. Since 2016, he has been serving as the CTO of Cognitive Computing and AI (CCAI) Lab at Huawei Research Center in Israel. Dr. Kisilev research interests include computer vision, deep learning, general statistical methods in learning theory, optimization and inverse problems. He proposed a novel use of sparse multi-node approaches in blind source separation problems, which allowed qualitative break-through in the separation accuracy. He had pioneered locally-adaptive image analysis framework that was deployed in various HP products, including digital cameras, printers and scanners. Dr. Kisilev pioneered the field of semantic description of medical images using Structured Deep Learning methods for human-like detection and description of medical findings. In his current position of the CTO of CCAI Lab at Huawei Israel Research Center, Dr. Kisilev has been leading and managing advanced research and development teams and projects, including: Autonomous Driving, Efficient Neural Network technologies, Distributed synchronous and asynchronous Neural Network training, AI for Communication and others. Dr. Kisilev is an author of over 80 filed patents (over 40 granted), of 4 book chapters, and of over 70 papers in top journals and conferences in various fields of Computer Science.