Dr. Shmulik Marcovitch, Talpiot Alumni, is VP of Algo-Routing at Via, a ridesharing company that has developed and deployed the world’s first operating system for on-demand dynamic public transit.
Via is backed by the world’s top investors and has raised over $414 million to date
Shmulik leads Via’s research and development of advanced algorithms in areas of graph-theory, optimization, big data and machine learning. Among others these include dynamically calculating routes in real-time, choosing optimal pickup and dropoff virtual bus-stops, rebalancing empty vehicles based on anticipated demand, and perception based routing of shared rides.