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When Shahar Tibi isn't out on the water training for the Olympics, she's in a lecture hall studying engineering. For the women's world windsurfing champion, that's not a contradiction, it's a plan. "I dream of an Olympic medal," she says, "but I also want to secure my future"

Dr. Ofir Lindenbaum is working on various methods to improve, optimize, and accelerate training and inference processes for foundation models in artificial intelligence. His work earned him the Rector's Award for Breakthrough Scientific Excellence for 2025, in the field of machine learning

Last Friday on campus was one of the most exciting days we have known, as thousands of prospective students came to get up close with the cutting edge of technology and Bar-Ilan's one-of-a-kind community.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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."

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

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