Eyal Shahar

Eyal Shahar is a music and art technologist. He develops exhibits and serves as the Chief New Media Exhibits Engineer at the Exploratorium. As an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco, Eyal teaches the Museums/Technology Practicum. Eyal has a BSc in electrical engineering from Tel Aviv University and an SM in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab. He is the author of the book Project Reliability Engineering: Pro Skills for Next Level Maker Projects (Apress, 2019).

Eyal Shahar will be speaking at the Museum AI Summit 2026 :

Meaningfully integrating AI into exhibits

Wondering whether artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance your visitors’ experience at an exhibit? Learn from our projects incorporating object detection AI into microscopy exhibits to support visitors in interpreting visually rich phenomena. We’ll cover our research-through-design process to build, test, and iterate upon an exhibit with integrated AI, the tools we developed to facilitate that rapid iteration process, and the lessons we learned along the way.