Omer Shapira joined NVIDIA Research in 2023. His research interests are in Computer Graphics, Virtual and Extended Reality (XR), Human-Computer Interaction and Haptics - with current focus on AI-Mediated Human Interaction. Since 2016, he worked at NVIDIA’s Simulation Technology group, leading the Omniverse XR group and contributing to Isaac, Drivesim, and NVIDIA’s core XR technology and research.

Prior to working at NVIDIA, Omer held engineering and leadership positions at Framestore and Fake Love (acquired by The New York Times, 2016) and creative positions at Channel 10 in Israel.

Omer studied Mathematics and Linguistics at Tel Aviv University (2012) and Human-Computer Interaction at New York University (2014), working in Ken Perlin’s group.