Omer Gila

Biography

Omer Gila joined HP Labs in 2001 and is currently Director of the Printing Processes and Materials for Digital Commercial Print (PPDC) Laboratory at HP Labs. PPDC encompasses the entire engineering effort in HP Labs related to HP printing, a $25B business. In the past decade, PPDC has continually made major contributions to current and future printing platforms, which has led to the twice doubling of its facilities to the present 10,000sf state-of-the-art commercial printing laboratory.
 
The group has been responsible for multiple key technology breakthroughs in HP printing processes and materials, including as examples the charging unit for the HP series III production presses and a new deinking chemistry for digital inks to facilitate paper recycling:

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press_kits/2008/predrupa/bg_IndigoHPLabsInnovation.pdf
http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/2009/jul-sep/deinking.html

Between 1999 and 2000 Omer was COO at Oniyah, the 2nd largest print service provider in Israel. Omer led Oniyah to a strong increase in revenue, a broadened product line, and improved overall efficiency. From 1994 to 1999 Omer held the positions of color control manager and system engineer at Indigo, the Israeli company that developed the first ever liquid electrophotographic commercial printing presses and acquired by HP in 2001.

Omer holds a M.Sc. in Applied Physics Electro-optics from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. There he developed and built the first all-optics neural network system in the world and graduated with honors.  Omer holds a B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.

Omer has been granted more than 20 patents.

Research interests

Digital Commercial Printing Engine