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Want to improve the quality of life in your city? Have a revolutionary idea that could upgrade day-to-day processes in your city or at your university? The Faculty of Engineering is delighted to invite students to sign up for the hackathon, collaborate, experiment, and develop new solutions that tackle the challenges of modern smart cities. The event, sponsored by Intel, will take place on June 2nd.

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Meet Dr. Ofir Lindenbaum, who specializes in Machine Learning and develops algorithms that can improve scientific research in almost any field—from discovering new drugs for cancer, to predicting floods

Republic of Kosovo’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister, Ms. Donika Gërvalla, VISITED THE Faculty of Engineering this month. Minister Gërvalla met with Dean Zalevsky to discuss a possible collaborative program with students from Kosovo. The Kosovo students will attend the Faculty of Engineering’s lessons via Zoom, in order to improve their training in digital engineering. 

Some 50 new immigrants from Russia and Ukraine, participants of the Jewish Agency’s SELA program, visited Bar Ilan University and learned about their options for a bachelor’s degree. The tour, organized by the International School at Bar Ilan, the prospective students were advised about programs offered in English and the tracks offered at the Faculty of Engineering.

Groundbreaking technology developed in Prof. Rachela Popovtzer’s lab, used for creating a new generation of engineered, nano-particle-based drugs, allows biological drugs to bypass the blood-brain barrier. This may revolutionize the treatment of neural disorders such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and different types of cancer

Last month Prof. Zvi Lotker was named winner of the Rector’s Prize for Scientific Innovation for his newest book where he explores the narrative analysis of stories, plays, and movies via dialogues with his computer. Read what he has to say about the book, see how working with a computer can shed light even on old classic creations, and learn why he believes machines will never truly replace humans.

Prof. Rachela Popovtzer receives ERC grant to develop a cure for rare genetic brain diseases

Held earlier this month to mark the Faculty of Engineering’s 20th anniversary, the alumni conference was an immense success.

Dr. Yaara Erez decodes brain signals from various imaging techniques and attempts to understand how they relate to functioning and thinking processes. Her breakthrough research made it all the way to the BBC.

Bachelors students aged 22–26? Birthright Israel Excel, Birthright Israel’s business leadership branch, wants you. On the agenda: accompanying students from leading universities around the world this summer.

Late last month, the Faculty of Engineering brought together 37 young French men and women who are currently part of the MASA Progress program and are considering relocating to Israel and studying here.

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