He has previously worked for the Israeli Ministry of Defense, the Space Data and Computing Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and for the Center for Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences (CESDIS) at NASA Goddard. Professor Netanyahu's main research interests are in the areas of algorithm design and analysis, computational geometry, image processing, pattern recognition, remote sensing, and robust statistical estimation. He has coauthored nearly 70 refereed papers that appeared in journals, international conference proceedings, and book chapters, and has served as Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition.