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Ibrahim Jubran

Ibrahim Jubran is a computer scientist whose research on coresets, a data-summarization technique, speeds up machine-learning algorithms on large datasets. He earned a B.Sc. in 2014 and an M.Sc. in 2018 at the University of Haifa, and received a PhD under Dan Feldman in the university's Robotics & Big Data Labs. A 2019 NeurIPS paper on least-mean-squares solvers, coauthored with Alaa Maalouf and Feldman, received an Outstanding Paper Honorable Mention, and a 2021 NeurIPS paper on coresets for decision trees was a spotlight. After working as a computer vision researcher at IBM Research in Haifa, he co-founded the augmented-reality startup Orb-AR and served as its CTO from 2022 to 2024. He is Chief Scientist at Genfied, a company that analyzes in-store retail operations through existing CCTV cameras.

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Timeline

  1. 2014

    A B.Sc. at Haifa

    He earns a B.Sc. with first class honors in 2014 through the Etgar program in the Computer Science Department at the University of Haifa.

  2. 2018

    Master's and PhD with Feldman

    He completes an M.Sc. summa cum laude in 2018 in the Computer Science Department at the University of Haifa, advised by Dan Feldman. He holds a PhD in computer science, also under Feldman, from the university's Robotics & Big Data Labs.

  3. 2019

    Least-mean-squares solvers at NeurIPS

    In 2019, he coauthors Fast and Accurate Least-Mean-Squares Solvers with Alaa Maalouf and Dan Feldman, and NeurIPS gives it an Outstanding Paper Honorable Mention. The algorithm fuses the data-summarization techniques known as sketches and coresets, and it speeds up existing solvers such as those in scikit-learn by up to 100 times.

  4. 2020

    Sets Clustering at ICML

    In 2020, he coauthors Sets Clustering with Murad Tukan, Alaa Maalouf and Dan Feldman at the International Conference on Machine Learning. The paper obtains the first approximation scheme (PTAS) for the sets-k-means problem that runs in near-linear time.

  5. 2020–2021

    Computer vision at IBM Research

    He works as a computer vision researcher at IBM Research in Haifa from 2020 to 2021, on deep learning-based image generation and segmentation solutions for longitudinal medical images.

  6. 2021

    Decision trees and point clouds

    In 2021, he coauthors Coresets for Decision Trees of Signals, a NeurIPS spotlight paper with Ernesto Evgeniy Sanches Shayda, Ilan Newman and Dan Feldman; its coresets speed up random forests and their parameter tuning by up to 10 times in sklearn and lightGBM experiments. At ICCV 2021, he coauthors Provably Approximated Point Cloud Registration with Alaa Maalouf, Ron Kimmel and Dan Feldman, whose algorithms give the first provable constant factor approximation for point cloud alignment in O(n) expected time.

  7. 2022–2024

    Co-founding Orb-AR

    He is co-founder and CTO of Orb-AR from 2022 to 2024. The startup builds a no-code augmented reality platform for mobile that lets marketers create and launch AR experiences, and a team of 3 developers under his lead reaches a stable product with paying customers.

  8. Since 2025

    Chief Scientist at Genfied

    He joins the founding team of Genfied in 2025 and serves as its Chief Scientist, where he has led the computer vision and AI research. The company analyzes in-store retail operations through retailers' existing CCTV cameras, and the team has submitted 2 patents.

Career

  1. Since 2025GenfiedChief Scientist
  2. 2022–2024Orb-ARCo-founder and CTO
  3. 2020–2021IBM ResearchComputer Vision Researcher

Education

  1. 2018University of HaifaM.Sc.
  2. 2014University of HaifaB.Sc.

From the biography.

  1. 23% of people shaping AI who left a university for a company later returned to a universityIncludes IBM. We estimate that 468 of the 2,011 people shaping AI who left a university for a company (23%) later returned to a university after a median of 5 years, and 163 of 829 (20%) made the reverse round trip.
  2. Google alumni have founded or led 133 other organizations, more than any other AI labIncludes IBM. We estimate that alumni of 17 major AI labs went on to found or lead 350 other organizations, including 226 they founded, and we trace 472 career moves directly between 23 labs since 2010.
  3. Universities keep AI researchers for a median of 6 years, compared with 2 years at frontier labsIncludes IBM. Across 15,811 dated work stays (6,529 people), median role tenure runs from 6 years at universities to 2 years at frontier labs. We compare all five organization types, starting decades from the 1970s to the 2020s, and the organizations that keep people longest.
  4. People shaping AI work at a median of 3 organizations over a career: 3 for university starters and institute and lab starters, versus 2 for company startersIncludes IBM. Across 6,853 people shaping AI with a dated work role, we estimate a median of 3 parent organizations over a career (mean 3.6), comparing role groups, starting sectors and starting decades from the 1950s to 2020–2026.

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  1. Ibrahim Jubran sites.google.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. NeurIPS 2019 Awards neurips.cc. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Fast and accurate least-mean-squares solvers - University of Haifa cris.haifa.ac.il. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Sets Clustering proceedings.mlr.press. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. [2003.04135] Sets Clustering arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. NeurIPS Spotlight Coresets for Decision Trees of Signals neurips.cc. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. [2110.03195] Coresets for Decision Trees of Signals arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. ICCV 2021 Open Access Repository: Provably Approximated Point Cloud Registration openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 21 October 2026.