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PhD student Guy Fargion of Prof. Ofir Weber’s research group developed an algorithm that uses neural networks to solve the problem of flattening 3D surfaces onto 2D planes. His paper was accepted for presentation at a conference and for publication by a leading journal

Katan, a member of Prof. Dror Fixler’s lab, won the title at SPIE’s Photonics West 2025 conference. In her research, she is developing an optical sensor for measuring physiological parameters

Jonathan Svirsky, a PhD student of Dr. Ofir Lindenbaum’s, attended ICLM, a prestigious annual conference in the realm of machine learning. He presented his research on sparsity—information representation in neural networks.

The seventh concert in the Engineers, “Musicians, and in Between” series was dedicated to Alon Ohel, a gifted musician being held hostage in Gaza. The event, orchestrated by Prof. Alex Fish, included two lectures. Among the speakers were Alon’s brother, Ronen Ohel, and Efrat Mor, the manager of the music library at Bar-Ilan and the aunt of Eitan Mor who is also being held hostage in Gaza.

The event, directed by Prof. Alexander Fish and produced by Dr. Efrat Orbach, included two fascinating lectures: Yehuda Rodin discussed the question “Can an orchestra play without a conductor?” and Dr. Assaf Suberry presented his research, “Intergenerational Synchrony and Its Effect on Bonding and Group Closeness among Young and Older Adults‏.”

The musical portion included a performance by the Bar-Ilan chorus, conducted by Dr. Avi Bar-Eitan, pianist Avital Fighel, and musical groups managed by Dr. Uri Jacob.

This special, moving event that combined research, music, and a message of human bonding, was a rousing success.

Dr. Shahar Alon was interviewed by Nature about expansion microscopy (ExM), a technique he uses to biopsy cancer tissues to reveal how gene activity patterns shift when immune cells and tumor cells meet

Dr. Weiss joined the electrical engineering program’s communications track. He likes the way mathematics describes problems of extracting information from observations, and works on solving these problems in areas such as communications, localization, and compression for estimation purposes using classical and modern tools such as machine learning

Meet Ron Shalev, second-year data engineering student, reserve logistics officer, October 7^th survivor and Otef evacuee. “I am eternally appreciative of your mission, I know first-hand how difficult it is,” she tells her fellow students on reserve duty

Prof. Leshem was invited to serve on the IEEE Signal Processing Society’ Fellow Evaluation Committee. He became a Fellow three years ago in recognition of his contribution to the field of multi-channel and multi-agent signal processing

Daniel Omer, a master’s student of Dr. Or Sheffet, attended the NeurIPS conference on AI and computational neuroscience theory in Vancouver where he presented a paper on the link between differential privacy and hypotheses testing

Gal specializes in AI-based technologies for HR and Talent Acquisition; Two of his Start-Up companies have made successful exits. He was invited by Dr. Hila Chalutz - Ben Gal to speak at the Faculty of Engineering about how AI is transforming the Business World 

This year’s winner of the SPIE’s Gabor award goes to Prof. Ze’ev Zalevsky for his significant contribution to the field of holography and diffractive optics.

Yaron Trink of Prof. Tomer Kalisky’s research group traveled to Berlin to participate in a joint project with ISBCB. Yaron utilized methods of unsupervised machine learning to characterize the process of deterioration in MS patients

Hadar’s poster won second place out of 300 participating posters at the Israel Society for Neuroscience conference. Hadar is developing innovative technology for detecting changes in brain function in early-stages Alzheimer’s patients.

At just 19, Rom is already on his fourth year at the Faculty of Engineering, a student at Prof. Orit Shefi’s lab. The scholarship recognizes his excellence at the relevant fields of study

Noga Entin of Dr. Adi Makmal’s research group attended the international QTech 2024 conference on quantum technology in Berlin. Entin researches and develops a method for freestyle pulse optimization, at the quantum hardware level