News
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“I am driven by the Faculty’s success”
Entering her new role as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Prof. Orit Shefi is full of passion and plans to promote research, industry collaborations, and community involvement
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Tips for a Successful Academic Year
In honor of the new academic year, we asked our faculty members and students: What tips can you offer new students?
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Postcard from Perth
PhD students Shiran Levy and Nathalie Lander Gower of Dr. Asaf Albo’s research group flew all the way to Australia to present their research on implementations of Terahertz quantum cascade laser
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Bioengineering Track Day
A scientific breakthrough in the cultured meat industry, fast and sensitive detection of the ricin toxin, and curing cancer with gold nanoparticles – these are just a few of the fascinating topics discussed in the Bioengineering Track Day
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This Is How a Real Hi-tech Company Works
Instead of test, students at the Systems and Signal Processing course were divided into five groups and established fictive hi-tech companies that manufacture and sell audio signal processing products. The response, says Dr. Ofer Schwartz, was highly enthusiastic
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Learning How to Teach Chip Design
Prof. Adam Teman taught a course on chip design to faculty members from faculties of engineering across India. The initiative was a resounding success and is expected to produce fascinating collaborations
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Dr. Dor Atzmon Wins Prestigious MOST Research Grant
The research, aimed at detecting and preventing moving robot collisions, is a collaboration between Atzmon and researchers from Ben-Gurion University and Charles University in Prague
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“We’ve accomplished some great things here”
Prof. Ze’ev Zalevsky concludes a five-year term as Dean of the Faculty, a period that included COVID-19, an academic strike, and a war. Despite the struggles, he looks back at his achievements with satisfaction, and is already looking forward to his next role as Vice President of the University for Academia-Industry Relations
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Meet Dr. Hila Chalutz-Ben Gal
Dr. Chalutz-Ben Gal joined the Industrial Engineering and Information Systems Program. She specializes in People Analytics, data-driven tools to analyze and improve decision-making related to human resources
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Prof. Orit Shefi won the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation BSF grant
Prof. Orit Shefi won the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation BSF grant, in collaboration with Prof. Xiangfan Chen of the Arizona State University. Their joint research is focusing on the development of interfaces to the nervous system that will enable remote stimulation of neural cells by usage of magnetic fields. With these devices they will be able to stimulate neurons remotely. The research involves creation of new smart material types and implantable components.
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Congratulations to Dr. Amir Weiss
Congratulations to Dr. Amir Weiss. Dr. Weiss is one of two winners from Bar-Ilan University. The Fellowship is awarded to outstanding students and allows universities to employ them full-time. Dr. Weiss, who specializes in signal processing, has joined the faculty as a senior lecturer in the Electrical Engineering program.
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Prof. Orit Shefi presents at TRANSMEET Art and Science Festival
The second TRANSMEET Science and Art Festival will be held on September 19–21. Prof. Shefi will be presenting “Stretching the Limits,” a collaborative piece with artist Vardi Bobrow, based on Shefi’s research of the nervous system on a single-cell level, an developing nervous rehabilitation systems.
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Eight researchers from the Faculty of Engineering have been awarded ISF grants
No fewer than eight researchers from the Faculty of Engineering received grants from the Israeli Science Foundation’s (ISF), which recognizes outstanding achievements in all fields of research.
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Prof. Eli Cohen Wins the EU’s Horizon RIA Grant
The research group will work on a project in computational social sciences and will examine quantum models for voting in elections
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Prof. Sharon Gannot to co-chair Interspeech 2024
Interspeech is the world’s leading conference in the field of speech processing science and technology. This year’s conference will be held in Early September in Kos, Greece.
