Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua Wins 2022 Mobility Innovator Award

The Automotive Hall of Fame has named Mobileye President and CEO Amnon Shashua the winner of its 2022 Mobility Innovation Award.

The Mobility Innovation Award was introduced last year and recognizes the outstanding work individuals have accomplished introducing new tech and services that are redefining mobility.

The Automotive Hall of Fame (AHF) is a non-profit organization that honors and celebrates leading figures in the automotive/mobility industry. The annual Mobility Innovator award was introduced for the first time last year to recognize individuals responsible for new, groundbreaking mobility technologies and services.  

“The automotive industry is experiencing revolutionary change driven by innovators who are shaping the future of mobility. The Mobility Innovator Award celebrates individuals and their impact,” said Sarah Cook, president of the AHF. “We are thrilled to recognize Amnon Shashua for his industry-leading contributions to advanced driving assist systems and other autonomous driving solutions.”

Shashua founded Mobileye in 1999 to develop AI computer vision algorithms for driving assistance systems. Since then, he continued to expand Mobileye’s advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous solutions portfolio enabling the company to integrate its technology with more than 100 million vehicles to date. Three years after setting a record-breaking IPO in 2014 for an Israeli company, multinational tech conglomerate Intel acquired Mobileye and Shashua became Intel’s senior vice president. 

Shashua’s other established companies also employ AI as their central foundation: OrCam, a company that manufactures the MyEye, a voice-activated device enabling visually impaired people to understand text and identify objects through audio feedback; AI21 Labs, a startup developing AI systems to process and generate language the same way a human mind would; and very recently, Mentee Robotics which will fabricate humanoid robots. 

Shashua is also a 2020 Dan David Prize laureate in the field of artificial intelligence and a professor of computer science at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

He has published more than 160 scientific papers, holds more than 90 patents, and continues to be an active academic researcher in the field of computer vision and machine learning.

Beyond his AI-related endeavors, Shashua is the founder of One Zero, Israel’s newest digital bank in 40 years, which was approved by the Bank of Israel in September 2019.

“I am honored to have been selected for this recognition. It’s a validation of our vision that artificial intelligence and computer vision had a key role to play in making driving safer,” said Shashua. “Today we are on the verge of transforming personal transportation, using Mobileye technologies like autonomous systems on a chip and crowdsourced maps to deliver AVs and ADAS that will further improve safety, efficiency, and access for all.”  

Shashua will be recognized along with the other 2022 Automotive Hall of Fame Inductees at the Automotive Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Ceremony on July 21.