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At the end of October, Dr. Eli Cohen gave the opening lecture at the Foundations of Physics conference. This in-depth look into the fundamentals of quantum theory was covered by the French newspaper, Le Monde

This year’s iDash competition was all about identifying Covid variants while maintaining patient confidentiality. Dr. Mor Weiss and her colleagues came up with a solution that utilizes homomorphic encryption and snatched third place

On November 17, 2021, at the Faculty of Engineering, Bar-Ilan University took place the International hybrid Conference by the GenPro Consortium on RISC-V Technologies. The GenPro Consortium consists of five Israeli companies - NVIDIA (formerly Mellanox), CEVA, DSPG, Western Digital, Satisfy, and academic partners from Bar-Ilan Univesity, Tel Aviv University, The Technion, and Ben Gurion University. The Consortium was supported within the framework of the MAGNET program of the IIA.

The consortium is now concluding three R&D years in which it developed two CPU flavors, one for the IoT domain with good performance under low power conditions, and another for high-performance application Linux-enabled.

Article about the consortium in Geektime

The full program of the conference

After completing a double BSc in math and biology, researching diamond optimization, and characterizing a subset of integer programming problems, Dr. Nir Halman specialized in stochastic dynamic programming in operations research. Meet the newest faculty member at the Industrial Engineering and Information Systems track

Machino, Prof. Zvi Lotker’s movie buff computer, prepares to mark the anniversary of the ZX81 and has a special analysis of the movie The Matrix in store – including an interesting perspective and the answer to the question on everyone’s minds: Is Neo The One?

Dr. Desiatov, who joined the Faculty of Engineering last year, is establishing an experimental electro-optics lab specializing in quantum optics and is trying to harness the qualities of light and use them to benefit humanity.

The Faculty of Engineering’s annual conference was held in late September at Kfar Blum. The conference was created to have our members meet and get together in a more informal setting: researchers, faculty, advanced degree students, and lab workers, as well as post-doctoral students and guest lecturers from abroad. “After two difficult years, this was an opportunity for us to get to know one another, talk about our research, present posters, and exchange opinions – face to face instead of screen-to-screen,” says Dr. Boris Desiatov who organized the conference along with Dr. Gonen Zinger. In addition to hiking the green north, the conference included lectures, workshops, and poster displays. Post-doctoral student Kavita Sharma and PhD student Alex Glicky Gabai were awarded Best Poster Prize during the conference.

The Erasmus+ program sponsors student exchange with select academic institutions in Europe. Daniel Shoval, head of the Erasmus program at Bar Ilan University, talks about the program and urges you to apply.

Are you interested in the world’s most advanced hardware technologies? The new track lets you focus on computer hardware, from circuit design through computer architecture and all the way to operating systems. Graduates will seamlessly be integrated into the hardware teams of leading global tech companies.

Just like the cat that disappears leaving only its grin behind, so can quantum particles leave a mark even after they’re gone. Using this effect for purposes of quantum communication was the topic of a recently published paper by Dr. Eliahu Cohen and his colleagues

A new academic collaboration with the University of Bergamo and funded by an Erasmus+ grant was launched with a five-day visit of our Faculty team

Kafri, a third-year student at the Faculty of Engineering, is headed to Politecnico di Milano as part of the Erasmus+ exchange program. She will be focusing on courses that combine engineering and music.

A platform that aggregates accessible services, a universal remote that you can operate using only your fingertips, and another one operated by pressure: these are the winners of the hackathon, held last month at the Faculty of Engineering

How can our skeletal system move continuously, year after year, without fading and wearing out? This question is explored by Prof. Orit Shefi and her research group, which recently received the HFSP Human Frontiers Research Grant.
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During the June 6^th all-night hackathon, a collaboration between the Faculty of Engineering and Milbat Tel Hashomer, and sponsored by Intel, participants will have the opportunity to initiate, design, and develop products that improve the lives of people with disabilities
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