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  •  Microsoft Q# Coding Contest – Summer 2020

    Microsoft Q# Coding Contest – Summer 2020

    Microsoft has set up a contest where you are required to solve quantum problems using the Q# programming language.

    If you're interested in the world of quantum computing, you may wish to take part in the contest! Undergraduate students from Bar-Ilan University who are among the winners of the contest will receive a monetary prize of 500 NIS (subject to presenting their solution to us).

    Please let us know if you plan to attend this event:
    adi.makmal@biu.ac.il
    emanuele.dalla-torre@biu.ac.il

    Apply Now>>

  • Dr. Itamar Levi Battles Data Leakage from Electronic ComponentsThe chip provides

    Dr. Itamar Levi Battles Data Leakage from Electronic Components

    The chip provides protection at a much lower cost – in terms of area, energy consumption and performance – than anything currently offered on the market

    Credit purchases via cellphone, saving and processing private information on the server, a pacemaker based on a simple processor, a system of sensors and controllers connected to a factory network – all of these are examples of computer-based platforms with electronic processing. All of them carry sensitive, intimate information, and naturally, the need arises to secure the information they process. “My research focuses on how to design our electronic friends in a way we can trust them,” says Dr. Itamar Levi, who had joined the Computer Engineering program at the Faculty this past October. “In theory, it’s simple: patterns of secret-keeping systems (or any other cryptographic need) always rely on some grain of secretly-kept information, such as a secret key. The problem is that our systems are not theoretical: the very realization of the system in the physical world leads to secret data leakage, whether it is or isn’t being used – and that’s just one of many problems.”

  • Working on Solutions for the Virus

    Working on Solutions for the Virus

    Three faculties lab are hard at work (following the Ministry of Health’s guidelines, of course), conducting research and trying to solve the problems of the Coronavirus pandemic, in diagnosis and treatment

  •   Dr. Or Sheffet is Developing Algorithms that Protect our Privacy

    Dr. Or Sheffet is Developing Algorithms that Protect our Privacy

    In this technological age, information about each and every one of us – personal and sensitive information – is collected in large databases: medical information is collected in hospitals, financial information is collected by banks and credit card companies, and even our ID and residential address are kept by government offices or the bureau of statistics. Due to the sensitive nature of such information, maintaining its privacy is imperative. 

  •  Dr. Adam Teman

    Dr. Adam Teman Develops Embedded Memories for Sophisticated Chips

    In these trying times, it’s nice to hear some good news. Last month, Dr. Adam Teman has learned that he is among the winners of the prestigious Krill Prize, awarded by the Wolf Foundation for Excellence in Scientific Research. The prize is given annually to ten young untenured lecturers and senior lecturers in Israel, based on general academic achievements.

  • פיתוח חדש של ד"ר עמוס דניאלי שעשוי לקצר את זמן האבחון של חולה בוירוס קורונה לכ-1

    Israeli tech may help drastically reduce corona virus diagnostic time

    Since the outbreak of coronavirus, one of the most pressing medical challenges that areas massively affected by the crisis face is the need to test a high number of people who might have been infected in a short amount of time. New technology developed by Dr Amos Danieli at Bar Ilan University might assist them in the mission, drastically cutting the time needed to analyze saliva samples.

    Read the full Jerusalem Post report

  •  Revolutionary Eye Drops, A 3D Heart, Bamba And Biblical Art – NoCamels’ Most Po

    Revolutionary Eye Drops, A 3D Heart, Bamba And Biblical Art – NoCamels’ Most Popular Stories Of 2019

    In January 2019, NoCamels followed up on major Israeli research into revolutionary eye drops that can correct refractive-related vision problems, thereby potentially making eyeglasses obsolete.

  • International Conference "QUEST 2", December 16-18 featuring quantum Science and

    International Conference "QUEST 2", December 16-18 at the Faculty of Engineering

    During December 16-18 we will have the pleasure to host at the Faculty of Engineering the international conference "QUEST 2" focused on /quantum Science and Technology. Students are especially encouraged to participate and present their posters (the best poster prize will be awarded).

    Looking forward to seeing you!

  • Once again, the Adams Fellowship is awarded to a PhD candidate at the Faculty of

    Once again, the Adams Fellowship is awarded to a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Engineering

    This year, for the second time since the Faculty of Engineering, was founded at Bar-Ilan, one of its PhD candidates is being honored with the Adams Fellowship. The fellowship is annually awarded by the Israel National Academy of Sciences to only eight doctoral candidates of all universities, for personal academic and research excellence.

  • Putting The Faculty of Engineering on the Global Map

    Putting The Faculty of Engineering on the Global Map

    The 3RD Workshop on OptoMechanics and Brillouin Scattering: Fundamentals, Applications, and Technologies – WOMBAT was held in March of this year. The event is dedicated to the joint research of sound and light waves. It is held every two years, and the innovator who brought the event to Israel and Prof. Avi Zadok, of BIU’s Faculty of Engineering. “The first workshop was conducted in Australia in 2015, and the acronym for the event is specifically designed as the name of the Australian animal also depicted in the event’s logo,” explains Zadok, 46. “In that first event, we only had one BIU student. By the second event, held in France in 2017, I was invited with 3 students, and it was an incredible experience. It was one of the best conferences we’ve been to, and that motivated us to host the next event here. Therefore, towards the 3rd workshop, we submitted a proposal to host it here in Israel, and happily, we were accepted.”

  • Student Spotlight on Pavitra S R, PhD Candidate in Prof. Fixler's Lab

    Meet Pavitra S R, originally from India, a PhD candidate at Prof. Dror Fixler’s Advanced Light Microscopy Laboratory in the Alexander Kofkin Faculty of Engineering at Bar-Ilan University. Pavitra works on developing a novel, non-invasive method to detect and treat atherosclerosis – the leading cause of death and disability in the western world. In research led by her doctoral adviser Prof. Fixler, who is also Director of Bar-Ilan's Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA), Pavitra is using gold nanorods and new imaging technology in an effort to diagnose and treat this disease in its early stages, before hardened and narrowed arteries trigger heart attacks or strokes.

     

  • Prof. Avi Zadok: Excellent students are the key to successful research

    In the past decade, Prof. Avi Zadok's students have won numerous acclaims. Five of them were included on the Rector's Honor Roll. So how exactly does a research group produce this many shining stars?

    Prof. Avi Zadok's students at the Alexander Kofkin Faculty of Engineering at Bar-Ilan University are making a name for themselves. They have won numerous awards and research fellowships, and Prof. Zadok is a proud mentor: "Through the years I have been privileged to work alongside the best of students," he boasts.

  • Dr. Tomer Lewi – Trying to Beat Nature

    Dr. Tomer Lewi, an expert in Nano Photonics and Flat Optics at Bar-Ilan’s University Alexander Kofkin Faculty of Engineering, shares his experience with metamaterials and their applications, which may enable the replacement of classic optical elements with flat ones.

    The interaction between light and matter is the focus of research for Dr. Tomer Lewi, of Bar-Ilan’s Faculty of Engineering. “I am interested in the interaction between light and metamaterials or quantum materials,” explains Lewi. “Why? Two reasons. Firstly, because it’s interesting on the physical level.  New phenomena arising suddenly, exciting new functions. Secondly, these materials are used to develop a new type of technology called Flat Optics, aiming to replace all the classic optical elements, such as lenses, mirrors, beam splitters and such, with flat elements – nanostructures designed for specific functions.”

  • Prof. Yaari’s Research Consortium Wins 9 Million Euro EU Grant

    17 days. That’s how long it took Prof. Gur Yaari from the Faculty of Engineering at Bar-Ilan University to establish a Research Consortium, which includes 20 international groups. The consortium was awarded 9 million Euros from the EU and Canada. In the next few years, Prof. Yaari plans to launch a network of databases for genetic sequences of the immune system.

    Prof. Gur Yaari of the Alexander Kofkin Faculty of Engineering at Bar-Ilan University was recently informed that the research consortium he established would receive a “tiny” grant of 9 million Euros from the EU.

  • Dr. Eliahu Cohen - Engineering the Future

    Dr. Eliahu Cohen from the Faculty of Engineering at Bar-Ilan describes Quantum Engineering, its significance and applications, and why it is the field to major in. And yes, he is hiring interns!

    Dr. Eliahu Cohen of Bar-Ilan University’s Alexander Kofkin Faculty of Engineering predicts that Quantum Engineering, a relatively new discipline, will become the next big thing in the scientific world. “Exploring quantum technologies has become a global trend in the past few years. Large corporations are already turning their attention to the field, and already use quantum-based computers. Google and IBM use these computers too,” says Cohen, 32. “The security industry, considered to be relatively conservative, is highly interested in these technologies. In Israel, this is practically a national mission. Many acknowledge that the first one to succeed in using quantum computers to decipher classic cryptography methods will gain a huge competitive advantage.”