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  • The Research that Improved COVID-19 Testing, Presented at the SPIE Conference

    The Research that Improved COVID-19 Testing, Presented at the SPIE Conference

    Ph.D. student Shmuel Burg and Dr. Michael Margulis of Prof. Amos Danielli’s Optical Imaging and Biosensing Lab presented their virus detection patents at the SPIE conference. The patents were successfully tested during COVID-19 outbreaks.

  • Double Rector’s Scientific Innovation Award

    Double Rector’s Scientific Innovation Award

    Twelve researchers were awarded the Rector’s award for scientific innovation, and two of them hail from the Faculty of Engineering: Prof. Carmit Hazay, for her research in the field of zero-knowledge proofs, and Dr. Tomer Lewi, for his work with chalcogenide optical materials.

  • Meet Prof. Gonen Singer

    Meet Prof. Gonen Singer

    Prof. Gonen Singer specializes in developing mathematical models in Machine Learning for solving data-based business problems in a dynamic environment subject to various constraints. He believes that the synergy between academia and industry forms the foundation of innovation and progress, a principle that shapes and drives his research.

  • Alon Tzroya won Young Investigator Award

    Alon Tzroya won Young Investigator Award

    The award was presented to Tzroya at the SPIE conference for his research on an innovative optical method for detecting and classifying contaminants in water

  • Prof. Orit Shefi’s Article Published in Advanced Materials Technologies

    Prof. Orit Shefi’s Article Published in Advanced Materials Technologies

    The article discusses the biolistic delivery of drug-carrying particles for targeted treatment of cancerous tumors. Its clinical application could help develop new methods for improving clinical photodynamic treatment.

  • Faculty researchers among editors for new SPIE journal

    Faculty researchers among editors for new SPIE journal

    Prof. Dror Fixler has been appointed Associate Editor of the new biophotonics journal. PhD student Ari Ashkenazy and Faculty of Engineering alumnus Dr. Shira Roth have been appointed Early Career Editors

  • “I’m at a place where I feel safe”

    “I’m at a place where I feel safe”

    Shelly Nachshon spent October 7th locked up in her safe room in Sderot, listening to the gunfire raging outside. On December 31st, she commenced her studies at the Faculty of Engineering. “It literally saved me,” she says

  • No Student Left Behind

    No Student Left Behind

    Our new Chief Administrative Officer, Dr. Joseph Talyosef, has entered his new role at a most challenging time. Here’s how he’s taking the Faculty of Engineering into a new school year during wartime.

  • A prestigious award for a paper by Prof. Carmit Hazay

    A prestigious award for a paper by Prof. Carmit Hazay

    The paper, which introduced a new proof system that reduces the computational complexity of zero-knowledge proofs, won an award from the Association for Computing Machinery.

  • “I am really astounded to see the unity and teamwork”

    “I am really astounded to see the unity and teamwork”

    PhD student Upasha Acharyya came here from Bangalore, India, just days before war broke out. She researches single-photon detectors, and says she feels “safe and secured.”

  • “When I stepped out, I found a paraglider next to my car”

    “When I stepped out, I found a paraglider next to my car”

    Noam Kalush, 43, married and father of two, PhD student and computational biology researcher at Prof. Hillel Kugler’s lab, was at his home in Netiv Haasara on Saturday, October 7th. This is his story

  • Engineers and Cucumbers, an Unlikely Mix

    Engineers and Cucumbers, an Unlikely Mix

    An initiative by the Faculty of Engineering’s Student Council got students volunteering in agricultural work

  • We said yes!

    We said yes!

    Tal Dvora, A student at Industrial Engineering and Information Systems program, tells us about the proposal video that has the entire country in tears of joy

  • The Scientist and the Artist, Transmeet festival

    The Scientist and the Artist

    The collaboration between Prof. Orit Shefi and artist Vardi Bobrov will feature as part of Transmeet Festival of art and science

  • Sorry, Algorithm, You Got It Wrong

    Sorry, Algorithm, You Got It Wrong

    As part of a formal verification and deep learning project, students Yael Leibovitch Weiss and Omer Cohen succeeded in introducing minimal noise to images, thereby leading object Detection algorithms to produce major errors