Dotan Di Castro

I am an AI researcher and engineering leader specializing in reinforcement learning, robotics, computer vision, and time series. With a PhD from the Technion and over fifteen years of experience spanning academia, startups, and industry research labs, I build autonomous systems — whether virtual or physical — that bridge machine learning theory and real-world impact.

Currently, I lead the Autonomous group at ForSight Robotics, where my team transforms human-operated surgical robots into autonomous ones. Previously, I founded and led the Bosch AI Research Lab in Israel, guiding 15 research scientists and engineers on projects spanning autonomous dozers, robotic manipulation, scheduling, and video prediction. I also serve as an Area Chair and reviewer at leading AI conferences including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, and AISTATS.

I earned my BSc (2000), MSc (2004), and PhD (2006) in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, followed by a postdoc (2010) with Prof. Shie Mannor. I began my career as a student apprentice at IBM Research (2000), then worked as a research scientist at Pulsar Investments (2009), served as CTO of the mobile-sensing startup Modana (2012), and spent five years as a senior research scientist at Yahoo! Labs (2013). In 2018 I founded the Bosch AI Robotics Lab in Israel, leading it for seven years before joining ForSight Robotics (2025) as Head of Autonomous.