Professor Raja Giryes is a Research Scientist at Apple and Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tel Aviv University. His research interests lie at the intersection between signal and image processing and machine learning, and in deep learning, inverse problems, sparse representations, computational photography and signal and image modeling in particular. Raja received the EURASIP Best PhD Award, ERC Starting Grant, Maof Prize for Excellent Young Faculty (2016-2019), VATAT Scholarship for Excellent Postdoctoral Fellows (2014-2015), Intel Research and Excellence Award (2005, 2013) and Excellence in Signal Processing Award (ESPA) from Texas Instruments (2008) and was part of the Azrieli Fellows Program (2010-2013). He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (Elsevier) and has organized workshops and tutorials on deep learning theory in various conferences, including ICML, CVPR and ICCV.