Roei Herzig is an incoming Assistant Professor at the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Berkeley, advised by Professor Trevor Darrell and in collaboration with Professors Jitendra Malik, Shankar Sastry, and Deva Ramanan. Roei earned his PhD from Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Professor Amir Globerson. His research develops models and learning algorithms for Physical AI, grounded in structural priors, using robots as the primary testbed. He has been recognized with several distinctions, including the 2023 Dissertation Award for the best AI thesis in Israel and the Israeli Excellence in Data Science Postdoctoral Fellowship.