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Orly Yadid-Pecht received her B.Sc. from the Electrical Engineering Department at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. She completed her D.Sc. in 1995, also at the Technion. She was a National Research Council (USA) research fellow till 1997 in the areas of Advanced Image Sensors at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)/ California Institute of Technology (Caltech), after which she joined Ben-Gurion University in Israel as a member of the Electrical and Electro-Optical Engineering departments. There she founded the VLSI Systems Center, specializing in CMOS Image Sensors. Since 2009 she is the iCORE Professor of Integrated Sensors, Intelligent Systems (ISIS) at the University of Calgary, Canada. In 2014 she received the iCORE/ AITF Strategic Chair position in Integrated Intelligent Sensors (I2Sense). Dr. Yadid-Pecht is a Fellow of IEEE, SPIE and AIMBE. She is also a twice recipient of the Alberta Science and Technology (ASTech) Leadership award (in 2015 in the category of Start-Up companies, with Luxmux Inc., and in 2018 individually), and of the Parex Innovation award (2019).