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Dr. Yaara Erez and Dr. Hanna Keren Awarded Grant for Developing Brain-Computer Interface for Emotional Monitoring and Intervention
The technology developed by the two researchers is based on physiological parameters in a VR setting, and will provide real-time mental state assessment. The collaborative project has earned them a competitive grant from the Ministry of Innovation, Science, and Technology in the field of health and medicine
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Greetings from Venice
Noga Entin of Dr. Adi Makmal’s research group participated in FisMat 2025 matter physics conference in Italy, where she gave a talk about pulse optimization on the hardware level
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Dr. Chen Tzror-Azankot Graduated From the WE Program for Advancing Women in the HealthTech Industry
Dr. Chen Tzror-Azankot is a research associate at Prof. Rachela Popovtzer’s lab, and develops innovative, nanoparticles-based technologies for theranostics, with the goal of establishing a startup in the field
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Prof. Rachela Popovtzer wins ERC Grant
Prof. Rachela Popovtzer of the Faculty of Engineering won the ERC’s prestigious Proof of Concept grant, to support her development of the GOLDEN-RT platform, an innovative, nanotechnology-based platform designed to allow precise systemic radiotherapy treatment of solid tumors and micro-metastases
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What is the Chip War?
What is the chip war? What are the trends and directions in which the chip industry is headed? And where is Israel in all of this?
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History by Algorithms
In his latest book, Prof. Zvika Lotker demonstrates how mathematical tools can be used to research history, apply rules to it, shape and design a narrative, and how AI will change the way history is perceived
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“And that’s when the AI asked if it may call itself I”
A joint project by Prof. Amir Leshem and Prof. Vered Tohar of the Department of Literature of the Jewish People birthed “The Eloquent Muse Poetry Book” – the first Hebrew language poetry book written entirely by AI
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How to Protect a Brilliant Idea? A Special Lecture by Adv. Yehuda Binder
At an age of accelerated innovation and knowledge-based entrepreneurship, protecting original ideas is a critical stepping stone in the path from research to application. The Faculty's Entrepreneurship and Excellence Club hosted guest speaker Adv. Yehuda Binder, an American patent editor with vast experience in mentoring and supervising international ventures and entities. His lecture focused on the world of patents and intellectual property.
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International Innovation Conference on Chip Design at the Faculty of Engineering
The EnICS Institute at the Faculty of Engineering hosted the innovation conference of TSMC, the world's largest and most advanced semiconductor manufacturer. The conference focused on the future of the semiconductor industry, with emphasis on innovation integrating artificial intelligence.
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Dr. Moti Medina Develops the Processors of the Future
In his lab, Dr. Medina integrates problem abstractions, algorithms, and hardware in an attempt to create advanced computing systems with proven performance guarantees. "It's a wonderful art form, that moment when you prove that something actually works."
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Article by Two Academic Reserve Students from the Faculty of Engineering Published by Prestigious Journal
The article by Alon Levi and Ziv Ossi, based on a project supervised by doctoral student Amit Te’eni and Prof. Eli Cohen, proposes an improvement of more than tenfold to the "Hamiltonian learning" process, which is important for applications such as simulation and control of quantum systems
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Prof. Gonen Singer and Dr. Shahar Somin have been Awarded an AI grant
The prestigious grant, offered by the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology, was awarded in recognition of their research, which proposes a novel AI-based method for automatic, task-oriented pruning of neural networks
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Generous Funding for SPIE's Bar-Ilan Student Chapter
The International Society for Optics and Photonics has presented its student chapter at Bar-Ilan University with the highest-tier grant it offers, in recognition of the scope of activities and contribution to the electro-optics student community
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The Faculty of Engineering’s Researchers Organize Sessions at the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting
This year's prestigious conference was held in Atlanta. The sessions, organized by Dr. Hila Chalutz-Ben Gal and Prof. Gonen Singer, were part of the Decision Analysis Society Cluster and covered issues in AI-Driven Decision Analysis
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Greetings From Detroit
Doctoral student Gal Shpun of the Ophthalmic Science and Engineering lab represented Bar-Ilan University at the prestigious The Eye and The Chip 2025 conference, where he presented the results of his research: the Hybrid Retinal Implant (HRI), which can restore vision in patients suffering from degenerative retinal diseases with high resolution visual acuity