Orna Etzion

Orna Etzion is a 28-year Intel veteran now leading Mobileye’s compute software team for the EyeQ product family. Etzion’s group is responsible for the compute software infrastructure of the EyeQ SoC focusing on the EyeQ acceleartors including software development tools, deep learning tools, OpenCL programming model, libraries and firmware on all accelerators.

With a master of science degree in Computer Science from the University of Philadelphia, Etzion has specialized in software her entire career working on a number of products in the area of compilers and binary translation, with emphasis on software optimizations and the adaptation of software to the HW at hand as a means for achieving the best possible performance. This experience has been especially valuable for her work on the EyeQ software stack as she aims to deliver high performance HW/SW infrastructure for the execution of Mobileye algorithms on EyeQ.

Etzion has authored more than 10 patents and has received a number of Intel awards. She is married with four daughters and three grandchildren.