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The second TRANSMEET Science and Art Festival will be held on September 19–21. Prof. Shefi will be presenting “Stretching the Limits,” a collaborative piece with artist Vardi Bobrow, based on Shefi’s research of the nervous system on a single-cell level, an developing nervous rehabilitation systems. 

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No fewer than eight researchers from the Faculty of Engineering received grants from the Israeli Science Foundation’s (ISF), which recognizes outstanding achievements in all fields of research.

The research group will work on a project in computational social sciences and will examine quantum models for voting in elections

Interspeech is the world’s leading conference in the field of speech processing science and technology. This year’s conference will be held in Early September in Kos, Greece.

The generous grant was awarded by the National Allowance from Estates Committee to EnICS Labs for developing a prototype for a hardware platform in the field of genome analysis. The project aims to target the problem of antimicrobial resistance.

The goal of the delegation to South Korea was to promote technological, commercial, and academic collaboration between the two nations. At the conference, Prof. Teman gave a talk about AI chips.

The prestigious fellowship is awarded by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities to outstanding doctoral students in the fields of science. Zehavi, a student of Prof. Avi Tzadok, studies applications of quantum technology on optic fibers

Feedback for Dr. Alon praised him for “…making an all-around effort to get us to understand the material, he truly cares about his students.” Prof. Singer was called “an incredible lecturer, coherent and caring”

One year ago, Ofek Eldar organized a hackathon in collaboration with the IDF’s Yahalom unit. On October 7^th he joined the very same unit as a reserve combat soldier, fought in Gaza and was injured in battle, recovered, and has now returned to the Faculty of Engineering. He is currently completing his undergraduate studies, and has a message for students on reserve duty – and the professors.

Both papers tackle the issue of communication networks, but from different angles: One offers a scheme that identifies malicious web agents, and the other explores how peer pressure affects opinion-forming in online discussion groups.

News of the October 7^th attack caught Shaked Luria, second-year electrical engineering student and reserve munitions officer, on a mountaintop in Slovenia. That was the start of an insane race back to Israel, crossing three countries, two capitals and nearly 1,000 kilometers.

The paper by Shay Dekel, a PhD student of Prof. Yosi Keller, deals with computer vision and explores the estimating of rotations between two input images overlooking the same object.

Born in the former Soviet Union, lives in Estonia, does business across all of Europe, and everyone at the Faculty of Engineering knows his name.

The material engineering booth at last month’s Open Day had some special guests: chief technological representatives from Intel joined the staff at the material engineering booth in last month’s Open Day. Merav Chetrit, Recruitment Strategy Manager, and Dr. Semeon Altshuler, Senior Staff Engineer, explained about the importance of this field and why it is in such high demand. They revealed the many employment opportunities available to program graduates at Intel’s local and international facilities.

Right to left: Prof. Doron Naveh, Head of the Materials Engineering program; Dr. Semeon Altshuler of Intel; Merav Chetrit of Intel; Dr. Tamar Goldzak-Mizrahi of the Materials Engineering program; and President of Bar-Ilan University, Prof. Arie Zaban.

In honor of International Women’s Day, the Faculty of Engineering hosted a panel with female alumni in key positions in the industry. They spoke about breaking the glass ceiling, balancing children and a career, and the advice they would have given their younger selves.