Daniel Weihs

Daniel Weihs (Hebrew: דניאל וייס; born 1942) is the Israeli Louis and Lyra Richmond Chair of Life Sciences and Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Aeronautical Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and the head of its Autonomous Systems Program.

Biography Weihs was born in Guilin in southern China, three years after his parents fled Austria for China. The family moved to Israel in 1949.

He has taught at Technion since 1973, became a Professor in 1982, and became a Distinguished Professor in 2002. He has published over 150 scientific papers.

He is a Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.