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I decided to pick up the gauntlet”
Avraham Raviv couldn’t find any Hebrew materials on Machine Learning and Deep Learning – so he decided to create them on his own. His book is in its late writing stages, and the chapters are available online for free.
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Now at the Faculty of Engineering: Hybrid Learning
After a pilot in semester A, the Faculty of Engineering has fully transitioned into hybrid learning and allows students to choose whether to study from campus or home
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Run with us
Meet EngineeRUN, the Faculty of Engineering’s running club. Running meets are currently held twice a week and include laps around the campus, but club founders Dr. Itamar Levi and Prof. Adam Teman have bigger plans in mind.
Do you want to run with us? Join the WhatsApp group
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New at the Faculty of Engineering: Industrial and Information Systems Engineering
This one-of-a-kind program inherently combines information systems and industrial engineering, data and AI, and aspects of economics and behavioral science.
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Prof. Sharon Gannot and colleagues are developing an advanced hearing aid
A Bar Ilan project funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology combines experts in the field of signal processing, neuroscience, and deep learning, in an attempt to construct an advanced hearing aid that could focus hearing according to the attention requested by the brain.
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The Faculty of Engineering Represented at the ICLR 2021
The ICLR 2021 (International Conference on Learning Representations) is one of three leading conferences in the world of computational learning. To be held this May, the conference will feature two projects from the Faculty of Engineering, conducted by students co-guided by the Faculty’s own Dr. Ethan Fetaya, and Prof. Gal Chechik of the Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center. This is an important achievement, considering that only 860 of the 3,000 applications were accepted.
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Scientific breakthrough: revolutionary RNA molecule mapping technology
The technology, developed by the Faculty of Engineering’s Dr. Shahar Alon in collaboration with experts from MIT and Harvard, enables the comprehensive characterization of tissues from complex diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer’s
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Eli Cohen’s secret quantum language
Eli Cohen’s group joined a new consortium involved in creating a secret code using quantum devices. This code will enable users to transmit secret information in free space and fiber-based networks. His teammates are going to play the bad guys…
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Pleased to meet you: Dr. Ilan Reuven Cohen
He studies algorithms in states of uncertainty specializes in algorithmic game theory and has found that paid parking garages contribute to our social welfare. Meet Dr. Ilan Reuven Cohen, who recently joined the Faculty of Engineering as a faculty member. We wish him success in his new role.
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Congratulations, Prof. Amir Leshem
Congratulations, Prof. Amir Leshem, for winning the Ministry of Science’s research grant for computational social sciences. Leshem and his colleagues, Dr. Moran Yarchi and Dr. Zahi Hayat from IDC, are researching the experimental validation of computing models of false information distribution in social networks. Their research will focus on the distribution of Fake News regarding COVID-19 in general, and vaccines in particular.
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Our Faculty’s representatives at the Knesset
Two technological developments by Faculty researchers were recently presented at a Knesset session of the Science and Technology Committee: a laser-based technology developed by Prof. Ze’ev Zalevsky, which enables remote monitoring of saturation levels in COVID patients, and Dr. Amos Danieli’s revolutionary technology for fast and precise serology tests.
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Congratulations, Prof. Sharon Gannot
Congratulations, Prof. Sharon Gannot, for winning the IEEE Fellow Award by the world’s largest professional organization for researchers and engineers in academia and the industry. This is the highest rank awarded annually by the organization to only 0.1% of the tens of thousands of its members. Prof. Gannot has promoted to this prestigious rank thanks to his contribution to acoustical modeling and statistical learning in speech enhancement.
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From Bar Ilan to Dubai
Dr. Pranav M. Pawar went on from a post-doctoral position at Prof. Amir Leshem’s lab, where he worked on machine learning techniques for wireless network management on a PBC grant, straight to a teaching position at BITS Pilani, Dubai. A remote interview.
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Dr. Pranav Pawar’s position in Dubai
India-native Pawar went on from a post-doctoral position at Prof. Amir Leshem’s lab, where he worked on machine learning techniques for wireless network management on a PBC grant, straight to a teaching position at BITS Pilani, Dubai. “Israel will always be my second home,” says Pawar.
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Dr. Amos Danieli’s speedy tests
Dr. Danieli’s diagnostics lab has developed a revolutionary technology for viral disease diagnosis using saliva samples. The technology can produce COVID-19 test results in only 40 minutes – significantly reducing waiting times in labs and enabling faster and much more efficient diagnosis and treatment.
