The Taub Faculty of Computer Science News and Announcements

The Nobel Prize in Physics is being awarded today to two researchers from the United States and Canada for developing machine learning tools and artificial neural networks - Prof. John Joseph Hopfield (91) of Princeton University and Prof. Jeffrey Everest Hinton (76) of the University of Toronto, who will receive the prize for developing computational tools that simulate the activity of the nervous system. Hinton is one of the most prominent researchers in the field of artificial …

The faculty mourns the death of Major (res.) Yevgeny Zinnershein, 43, from Zichron Yaakov, company commander in the Hiram Battalion, 226th Brigade, who fell yesterday in southern Lebanon.Yevgeny was a graduate of the faculty, 2009 We share in the family's deep sorrow May his memory be blessed

Warm congratulations to the outstanding lecturers of the 2024 spring semester: Prof. Erez Petrenek - Technion Outstanding Teaching Excellence in the Parallel Programming Seminar and in the "Data Structures 1" course Prof. Michael Elad - Commendation for Teaching Excellence in the "Numerical Algorithms" course Prof. Roy Schwartz - Commendation for Teaching Excellence in the "Algorithms 1" course Wishing you many years of excellence and educational work for all of us!

You're invited to the "Technion at the Bar" lecture: Who Moved My Files? How to Preserve Our Pictures for at Least 100 Years Lecturer: Prof. Eitan Yaakobi December 12, 2024 | 20:00 The Black Sheep Pub, Technion To register (free of charge): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeqrNXwS6YbpG3sQxZXRlmsko9A8MdAtuUNW4s8eVeW5m1d1A/viewform

Warm congratulations to Prof. Alex Bronstein on winning the Abarbanel Prize. The prize is awarded every two years to young mathematicians working in applied mathematics, and is presented by the Israeli Mathematical Association. Well done!!

Amal Hihi, 21, from Horfis, is an undergraduate student at the faculty. She recently won a hackathon held at the faculty with a particularly original solution designed to help people experiencing stress or anxiety. And what was the idea that brought her the first place? She said: "Therapy through cooking in VR glasses, virtual reality. There is music in the background and a virtual natural environment that you choose." And why did Hihi choose the act of cooking? She explained: "According …

Professor Tomer Shlomi aims to make medical diagnosis affordable and accessible to the general population through an algorithm that accelerates the analysis of blood samples using mass spectrometry. The startup he founded, MetaSight, has raised approximately $20 million to date. פרופ' תומר שלומי הפעיל את המכונה קצת אחרת – וגילה קיצור דרך לבדיקות דם חדשות - TechNation.pdf - Google Drive

Registration is now open for the Apple Excellence Award.Eligible candidates: Undergraduate students with a GPA of 90 or above, and at least 40 credits completed. Preference will be given to those involved in social activities.For more details and to submit your application (by December 2, 2024):https://joinapple.avature.net/Event?projectId=1382 Article

Stav Alber, a graduate and a teacher at the CS faculty, encourages girls to study computer science and is publishing a book that opens a window for them to the world of cryptography. Article https://www.ynet.co.il/laisha/article/syiz20bgkl

Warm congratulations to Dr. Yonatan Belinkov and Dr. Yaniv Romano on winning the 2024 Henry Taub Prize for Academic Excellence. The Henry Taub Prize for Academic Excellence is awarded to faculty members in the Faculty of Computer Science for exceptional achievements in research. Well Done!

Dr. Dean Leitersdorf, graduate of the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion, is the co-founder and CEO of Decart, a new startup company that "plans to change the rules of the game in AI".Decart was founded in late 2023 and developed a platform that the company believes will make the cost of running and training AI models 10 times cheaper.The model that Decart has developed to demonstrate its capabilities presents the creation of a gaming video in real time. In other words, the game …

Massive funding in Israeli cybersecurity: Armis's valuation skyrockets to over $4 billion. The cybersecurity unicorn Armis was founded by faculty graduates Nadir Yizrael and Evgeny Divrov. For the full article:  גיוס ענק בסייבר הישראלי: השווי של ארמיס מזנק למעל 4 מיליארד דולר - גלובס 

The CS Faculty mourns the loss of Captain (Res.) Amit Hayut, a commander in Battalion 8207 of the 'Alon' Brigade, aged 29 from Haifa, who fell in southern Lebanon. Amit completed his studies at the faculty this year. We share in the family's profound sorrow. May his memory be a blessing. The family will sit shiva at 15 Zion Street, Haifa.

The project that won the CS Hack - Doing Good Hackathon focused on strengthening mental resilience through technology. Amal Hihi, Haya Hihi, Lina Shakur, Jadan Aslim, and Eden Shema developed a system that allows cooking in a 3D environment, helping to alleviate mental stress. https://vimeo.com/1019674869/791230fbd0

Warm congratulations to the winners of the 2024 VATAT Prize for students researching in the field of data science at the Tech.AI Center at the Technion: - Chen Davidov, supervised by Prof. Ron Kimmel, Dr. Yaniv Romano, and Dr. Gil Shamai- Itay Yitzhak, supervised by Dr. Yonatan Blinco and Dr. Gabriel Stanovsky- Omer Tzabari, supervised by Prof. Eitan Yaakobi and Prof. Antonia Wachter-Zeh- Guy Ohayon, supervised by Prof. Michael Alad and Prof. Tomer Michaeli- Yonatan Elul, supervised by …

The startup Lumana recently raising $24 million. The company, which develops computer vision technology for security cameras, was founded by Sagi Ben Moshe, a graduate of the faculty (2010), and its Chief Scientist is Prof. Ron Kimmel, a faculty member. Lumana has developed a platform that enables image processing for simple security cameras, transforming them into smart devices using artificial intelligence. The result is the ability to identify emergencies and threats in real-time, with …

Great pride! 54 graduates received a Master’s degree in Computer Science.  Photos from the ceremony are available at the following link: Photos   

The Rothschild Prize for 2024 was awarded last week to two faculty members from the Technion: Professor Michael (Miki) Elad for his research in engineering, and Professor Mordechai (Moti) Segev for his research in physics. The ceremony was led by the philanthropic foundation Yad Hanadiv of the Rothschild family. The awards were presented at the National Library in Jerusalem, and the following day, a scientific conference was held at the library to showcase the winners' achievements and …

Warm congratulations to the outstanding teaching assistants of the Winter Semester 2024. Thanks to their hard work and daily dedication, we continue to see ongoing improvements in teaching within the faculty. We are proud of you! Persistent  Outstanding Teaching Assistants:- Shunit Agmon- Ido Galil- Itai Hasson- Adi Harif- Sapir Tubul- Omer Rappaport Persistent  Outstanding Faculty Teaching Assistants:- Tomer Gvirtsman- Tal Neval Outstanding Faculty Teaching Assistants:- …

The Technipwn team, the CTF team of the faculty, concludes its first year of activity at the DEF CON conference in Las Vegas. At this major cybersecurity event, team members flew to represent the Technion and the faculty, achieving fifth place in the Hack The Box CTF competition! Throughout the year, the team was supported by Intel and Imperva, which provided training and guest lectures. Those interested in leading the team next semester can contact Prof. Avi Mendelson …

Dr. Yonatan Belinkov and Dr. Yaniv Romano are among the recipients of the prestigious ERC Starting Grants from the European Commission for Research. For the article on Ynet: (https://www.ynet.co.il/environment-science/article/by78i1dnr) 

Warm congratulations to Dr. Yonatan Belinkov and Dr. Yaniv Romano on receiving the prestigious ERC Starting Grants from the European Commission for Research. These grants are designed to assist young and promising scientists in advancing their research, building research teams, and pursuing bold and original ideas. Candidates are required to demonstrate potential for scientific breakthroughs, intense ambition, and feasibility in their research proposals. Dr. Yonatan Blinov joined the …

The annual project fair was held this year alongside the Faculty of Computer Science's Outstanding Project Competition, supported by Amdocs, on Wednesday, August 21, 2024. Over 30 undergraduate student projects were showcased in a variety of fields under the categories of Internet of Things (IoT), Android applications, software engineering, image processing, and AI. In the Outstanding Project Competition, 20 teams presented the most creative projects completed during the semester. The …

Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Faculty Programming Competition, who represented the Technion and the Faculty at the prestigious International Programming Contest ICPC/SWERC! The competition featured 12 problems drawn from various fields of mathematics and computer science. A correct solution to a problem consisted of software that efficiently and correctly handled a range of cases, including special, degenerate, and extreme cases. The top five teams solved 6 problems each and …

Nadav Adir and Alon Dankenner, graduates of the faculty, presented this week at the Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas a dramatic achievement in the cybersecurity world: the takeover of Siemens' new controllers, some of the most secure controllers in the world, by breaking their secure communication protocol. Adir and Dankenner's research was conducted at the Technion under the guidance of Professor Eli Biham and Dr. Sarah Beitan. The practical significance of this achievement arises …

In English, they are called "Moonshots." In Hebrew, we can refer to them as "companies aiming for the moon." These are companies with big, ambitious ideas that develop deep and complex technology. Dr. Kira Radinsky is among the founders of Mana.bio, a company developing AI-based technology for drug delivery inside the body.  - The Marker, August 2024

  Congratulations to Professor Gershon Elber on winning the Tosiyasu Kunii Prize for his exceptional contributions to the field of Shape Modeling. The award was announced at the SMI 2024 conference and will be presented at the SMI 2025 conference, which is a leading event in the field of Computer Graphics. Gershon's research focuses on Computer aided geometric design, modeling of objects, and computer graphics. His current research focus is on heterogeneous …

In the 8th grade he fell in love with computers, today, Elon Reshef, a graduate of the faculty (1995) is a co-founder and chief product manager at the unicorn company Gong.The company has raised more than half a billion to date and in the last round it raised more than 7 billion dollars.A conversation about entrepreneurship, growth and artificial intelligence: …

We would like to congratulate Daniella Bar-Lev, who has been awarded a PBC scholarship for post-doctoral studies abroad for excellent women in science. Daniella will begin her post-doctorate next year at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Zurich. Daniella Bar-Lev is a PhD student who is conducting her doctoral research on error-correction in DNA-based storage systems under the supervision of Prof. Eitan Yaakobi and Prof. Tuvi Etzion. Her research focuses …

Ali Ayoub, a graduate of the CS faculty, also serving as the VP of software engineering at Nvidia, and an entrepreneur in the start-up HAAT - in an inspiring interview about high-tech, entrepreneurship and equal opportunities. https://www.ynet.co.il/economy/article/synaaxadc?fbclid=IwY2xjawESyxhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHe0KeMimdU0pAgd9fNcSnfpY4tokq5R75GjviXuy_dSFM7dkAqMW9awSuw_aem_rzRYkD7ck2jifUtDEnBJ4w

Apply here: https://forms.gle/quELYUtMDFGf65Zu8    Last date to apply: August 4th 2024

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Warm congratulations to Prof. Eitan Yaakobi and Omer Sabary, a PhD student under Yaakobi's advisment, for winning first place in the i4connect competition to promote ideas for ventures within the Technion Knowledge Center for Innovation. Yaakobi and Sabary presented in the competition a software project of algorithmics and error correction codes that we developed for coding and retrieving information in DNA-based information storage systems.

Nadir Yizrael, the founder of Armis Security and a graduate of the faculty, tells about the path from a bachelor's degree in the Lapidim program to a company worth billions that he founded together with his classmate, Yevgeny Dibrov Article (HEB) at the link

The faculty held the annual social-technological hackathon CS Hack – Doing Good. This event aims to harness technological innovation for the benefit of society and the community, and this year it focused on developing technological solutions to increase mental resilience. to the article on YnetFor the article on news Haifa krayot

Students in the Faculty of Computer Science of all degrees are invited to apply for the Social Excellence Award for the year 2023-2024, for volunteering or entrepreneurship for society and the community inside and/or outside the campus Apply here by July 31, 2024

The CS Doing Good Faculty Hackathon is underway and we are excited! Feel like you have no experience? In preparation for the hackathon, we created three workshops that will give you practical tools in Android development, Web development and an introduction to NLP Web Development 17.6 at 17:30 at Taub 337 We will learn about web development - fronend, backend and everything in between. In the workshop we will learn the principles and basics of web development including tools that will …

Registration has opened for the STARKWARE award for outstanding undergraduate students, in which prizes worth 15,000 NIS each will be awarded. For details and application at this link Good luck!

We are happy to announce that Dr. Hila Peleg and Dr. Yaniv Romano won the Krill Award. It is worth noting that among the ten recipients of the award for 2024 there are three from the Technion of which two are from the faculty. Congratulations to Hila and Yaniv and a great honor to all of us

We are happy to announce that Prof. Alfred Bruckstein has been appointed an Elected Fellow to the International Core Academy of Sciences and Humanities Congratulations to Alfred and great honor to all of us

Warm congratulations to Prof. Eitan Yaakobi on his election as a member of the Israeli Young Academy. Yaakobi joins a small group of outstanding and leading scientists in their field, researchers who have demonstrated excellence in research and original thinking as well as initiative and contribution to society in the public sphere. Eitan Yaakobi's research deals with the storage of information in DNA, a field that is considered one of the most promising directions in the world of …

Warm congratulations to Prof. Miki Elad on his election as a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences. This is another significant recognition of the impressive research achievements of Miki Elad who joins a small and select group of prominent scientists in Israel. Prof. Miki Elad deals with signal and image processing and computational learning while constantly bridging in-depth theoretical and mathematical analysis with the worlds of application. His research led to a revolution in the …

Warm congratulations to the outstanding practitioners in the spring 2023 semester, who thanks to their hard and daily work we manage to bring about a constant improvement in teaching at the faculty. New winners have joined the blessed family of students who made excellence a way of life - keep up this blessed work!! Persistent Outstanding Practitioners:  Agmon - An introduction to group theory and automata for computer scienceShunit  Amit Ganz - Algorithms 1 Itai Evron - …

We are incredibly excited to announce that the ASPLOS'12 paper "ELI: bare-metal performance for I/O virtualization" [1], authored by Dr. Nadav Amit, Prof. Assaf Schuster, Prof. Dan Tsafrir, and collaborators from IBM research, has been chosen as this year's recipient of the prestigious ASPLOS Influential Paper Award [2]. The award announcement was made last week during the ASPLOS'24 banquet in San Diego [3]. The award is sponsored by ACM SIGARCH (computer architecture interest group), …

Warm congratulations to Daniela Bar-Lev, Alona Levy-Jurgenson and Gali Sela for winning the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Postdoctoral Award for Women in Mathematical and Computing. The award is intended to support promising Israeli female researchers who wish to pursue a post-doctorate in the field of mathematics, science and engineering, in international institutions, with the future goal of increasing the number of faculty members in Israeli universities. To achieve this goal, the award …

We are happy to announce that Alex Bronstein and Eitan Yaakobii won the Morton and Beverley Rechler Award for Excellence in Research this year. Warm congratulations to Eitan and Alex!

Warm congratulations to Ron Rothblum on his promotion to the rank of associate professor with tenure Much success in the future!

Warm congratulations to all the winners of the Faculty Research Day: First place was won by Yaniv Wolf and Amit Bracha, advised by Prof. Ron Kimmel. In second and third place - Michal Edelstein under the advisment of Prof. Miri Ben-Chen and Eden Saig under the advisment of Dr. Nir Rosenfeld.The winners will represent the faculty at the annual research day at the Jacobs Technion to be held on Tuesday, June 4, 2024, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.Commendation was awarded to: Guy Ohion under the …

Ynet - April 10, 2024Haaretz - April 10, 2024 Avi Wigderson, Leading Theoretical Computer Scientist, Technion Alum and Honorary Doctorate Recipient, Wins Turing Award The A.M. Turing Award, also known as the "Nobel Prize of Computing," will be granted to Professor Avi Wigderson, a graduate of the Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion and a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton University. The award is an annual prize given by the …

Ynet March 31, 2024 Dean Zadok, a PhD student at the faculty, has developed a robotic system that is expected to change the lives of amputees. The system already allows the user to play the piano and type on the computer, and the intention is to continue improving its capabilities. "Many of the actions we do casually on a daily basis - typing, making coffee, changing a lamp - are very challenging actions for amputees," explains Zadok. "Hence the enormous importance of efficient and …

Congratulations to Boris Pismenny, a recent PhD graduate from our faculty, advised by Prof. Dan Tsafrir and Prof. Adam Morrison, for winning first place in the yearly Advanced Communication Center (ACC) Feder Family Award for Best Student Work in Communications Technology, for his work on alleviating memory and CPU bottlenecks in hundreds of gigabit networking. The award will be handed during the ACC annual workshop, to be held in July 2024.

We are pleased to announce the promotion of Mirela Ben-Chen to the rank of full professor.

The faculty team volunteered at the community clinic in Hadar, on the occasion of Good Deeds Day. The community clinic, led by Dr. Alon Erez, is a project of the Technion and the Faculty of Medicine that provides fully voluntary medical care to about a thousand indigent patients a year. As part of the volunteering, the team engaged in repair, renovation, painting and organization work. To give is to receive :) …

We are pleased to announce the promotion of Keren Censor-Hillel to the rank of full professor. Warm greetings from all of us!

Registration for the Final Prize for outstanding students for 2024 has opened Applications can be submitted by email until 14.3.24

Warm congratulations to Prof. Sefi Naor for being selected as an ACM Fellow. ACM is the largest and most important association in the computer field, and this year it announced the selection of 68 scientists worldwide as fellows. For the article follow the link

An opportunity to experience an HR interview with high-tech recruiters Sign up here Receive a recruiter's email address and coordinate a date for an online interview simulation Duration of the interview: 25 minutes including feedback. Registration until February 20, 2024

Warm congratulations to Prof. Michael Elad for winning the Rothschild Prize for 2024. The prestigious award, on behalf of Yad Handiv, was founded in 1959 to support, encourage and promote the sciences and the humanities in Israel, and it is given in recognition of original and important publications in seven fields. The award will be given to him in recognition of his pioneering contributions in the fields of signal and image processing and computational learning. Michael Elad's research …

Registration has opened for the "2024 Final Award" for outstanding master's degree students, within which 15 prizes worth 10,000 NIS each will be awarded. For details and application at this link

Apple offers excellence awards to undergraduate and graduate students Registration for the Apple Excellence Scholarship has opened | Apply by February 02, 2024 For undergraduate students with an average of 90+, an accumulation of at least 40 credits and an advantage for those with a social commitment. For graduate students. An advantage for husbands involved in social activities. For details and application: https://did.li/joinapple-TechnionCS

Pizza and Career Hacks with Dell Technologies Wednesday 31.1.24 | Hours 12:30-14:30 pm | Auditorium 012 (piano complex, floor 0)

Warm congratulations to Ori Rottenstreich on his promotion to the rank of associate professor with tenure. Much success in the future!

Prof. Eliezer Kantorowitz, one of the founders of the faculty, passed away this week Prof.Kantorowitz was born in December 1931 in Israel (then Palestine) to a father born in Russia and a mother born in Denmark, and fought in the War of Liberation. He completed his studies for a degree in ship engineering in Denmark and later specialized in computing for ship engineering. He began his career at the Technion in 1960 at the Computer Center and joined the Faculty of Computer Science upon its …

Warm congratulations to the outstanding lecturers in the Spring 2023 semester: Prof. Eitan Yaakobi - Commendation for excellence in teaching in the Combinatorics course for Computer Science Prof. Erez Petrank - Commendation for excellence in teaching in the Data Structures 1 course Prof. Erez Petrank - Technion outstanding excellence in teaching in a parallel programming seminar course Dr. Yaniv Romano - Technion outstanding excellence in teaching in the numerical algorithms course Dr. Ron …