The Taub Faculty of Computer Science News and Announcements

Warm congratulations to Alona Levy-Jurgenson 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 provides opportunities for Israeli …

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

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

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 …

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

Warm congratulations to Daniela Bar-Lev for winning the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award 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 provides opportunities for Israeli …

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.

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

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

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 …

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. 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

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 …