He is a Professor of Electrical engineering and Nanophotonics at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel.
In 2007, Zalevsky was one of the leading founders of the Bar-Ilan Institute of Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials (BINA).
In 2011, Zalevsky's optical heartbeat monitor was selected as one of the "Israel's top 45 greatest inventions of all time".
[citation needed] Zalevsky has more than 50 patents[3] in the field of optics including the Kinect[4] motion sensing and the Opto-Phone.
[7] In 2021 he was awarded the Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize from The Optical Society for "significant contributions to the field of optical super-resolution including the invention of many novel concepts bypassing Abbe’s limits of diffraction and the geometric limits set by the sensor.