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The Faculty of Engineering’s third annual hackathon will be held this June, and for the first time ever, it will be in collaboration with the IDF. “Two of our organizers this year, Daniel Rabinek and myself, served in the military together at the Engineering Corps’ Special Operations Force (Yahalom),” shares Ofek Eldar (28), a third-year electrical engineering student in the nano-electronics and signal processing track. “When we were brainstorming ideas for this year’s hackathon, we thought about doing something with Yahalom; bringing together the operational aspect—the combat soldiers—and the technological aspect, computer, and electrical engineering students. Luckily, the idea was welcomed with quite the enthusiasm. Both Yahalom and the Faculty of Engineering did more than their share to make it happen.”

Bar-Ilan University will be holding a biology-oriented hackathon in May, in collaboration with local biotech companies such as AION Labs, Mafaat, Elbit, and Kitchen Hub. The event is open to students in all fields and is a wonderful opportunity to mingle and connect with key industry figures and develop product concepts. Continue reading (and don’t forget to sign up).

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On a mission to help students smoothly enter the work force, the Faculty of Engineering’s Student Council came up with up the bootcamp—a series of short, practical courses to be held during May.

A project being conducted at Prof. Hillel Kugler’s lab was presented at a conference earlier this month. The project is in the field of biocomputation circuits-particularly formal validation. Master’s student Michelle Aluf-Medina has all the details.

Thanks to brain mapping performed on patients with brain tumors, Dr. Yaara Erez’s research group was able to identify neural networks that are associated with higher cortical functions. This finding will enable clinicians to provide patients with optimal, personalized treatment

Congratulations, Eden Sade from Prof. Moti Fridman’s lab, and Noga Entin from Dr. Adi Makmal’s lab, who were chosen to take part in the 2023 Israel-Germany Quantum Future Academy Workshop. The two students were chosen, together with other 13 students from Israel, for their academic excellence out of hundreds of worthy applicants. The first part of the workshop was held in Israel in February and the second part will take place in Germany, in September 2023. We wish them the best of luck and are looking forward to seeing them representing our country and Faculty.

Dr. Tamar Goldzak Mizrahi focuses on computing the quantum qualities of nanometric materials, with the goal of developing and identifying materials that could serve as foundations for new quantum technologies such as detectors, solar technologies, and green energy.

The Brainstorm community event held last month at the Faculty of Engineering provided students with opportunities to experiment with advanced neuroscience technologies, including VR and expansion sequencing

Dr. Leonid Yavits recently won a generous grant awarded by the EU, for a four-year project in which he will be developing algorithms and methods of in-memory computing, to be used in Biocomputing applications

PhD students Michal Danino Levi of Dr. Shahar Alon’s lab, and Reut Plen of Prof. Orit Shefi’s lab, were admitted to TEVA’s bio-innovation scholarship program for 2023. In addition to a generous stipend, this prestigious program includes mentorship from industry experts and is designed to support and promote studies in the field of biological treatments, as well as collaborations in this field between academia and the industry. Only a select few outstanding doctoral students are accepted each year, based on personal performance in school and in research. This year, two of the lucky winners are from our very own Faculty of Engineering.

Faculty alumnus Moshe Gamliel suggested a new term in optics to the Academy of the Hebrew Language, in memory of Dany Gonen ZL who was killed 8 years ago. This week, the Academy’s plenary committee approved the new term.

In October 2022, Noam Kalush started working on his PhD at Prof. Hillel Kugler’s lab. Earlier that year he published his first book of prose, and a crowdfunding campaign for the second one is already underway.

The new and unique program will be starting in the next semester. Prof. Sharon Gannot, who will be leading the program, wants you to join, and shares all there is to know.

Dr. Tom Tirer’s work combines signal processing with deep learning and optimization tools, with the goal of developing high-performance, interpretable algorithms

Siginet.bio, a project fresh from Prof. Rachela Popovtzer’s lab, won the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology’s Award for Entrepreneurship Postdoc. The project develops technology for simple, noninvasive disease monitoring.