Roni Yagel, Vice President, Markets and Business Development, is responsible for developing markets in Latin America, India, China, Russia, Africa, Middle-East (including Turkey and Greece).
Dr. Yagel joined InSightec in 1999 as the Director of Decision Support Systems and managed the team that built the software for ExAblate 2000. Before joining InSightec, Dr. Yagel was the R&D Program Manager for Silicon Graphics. Prior to that he held various academic positions including Associate Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science at The Ohio State University. In 1992 he was a visiting scientist at the NASA Lewis Research Center. He began his career as a researcher at State University of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook in the department of Physiology and Biophysics.
Dr. Yagel has published more then 100 scientific papers and 3 books, has made over 40 presentations at international conferences, and served in various positions in academic organizations and conferences. He also holds three patents and has been awarded Best Paper Award at the Visualization ’97 Conference; the Ohio State University Lumley Engineering Research Award and Honors from the Israeli Parliament Committee of Education.
Dr. Yagel received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He also received a M.Sc. in Computer Science and B.Sc. Cum Laude, Mathematics and Computer Science, from Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
