The winners of the 2017/18 CS Dean Excellence Award and Amdocs Best Project winners were awarded in a ceremony held in the faculty on Monday, July 2nd, 2018.

The event hosted family members and guests of 198 excellent students. Dean Prof. Dan Geiger and Vice Dean for Undergraduate Studies Prof. Shaul Markovitch awarded the students and the latter also joined with a musical piece on acoustic guitar the Blues artist Ayal Mittelman who played on electric guitar. and The American Technion Society (ATS) bestowed the 2017/18 Ernest Freudman Fellowship upon Bahjat Kawar. The fellowship is given  to a student who's achievements stand out in the first year off his studies. Guest lecturer Dr. Naama Geva-Zatorsky from the Technion Integrated Cancer Center gave a fascinating talk on: "The intestinal bacteria - our best friends".

The Amdocs Best Project Contest awards were given by Amdocs representative Daphne Gottschalk to:

"Athenizer" - Dor Ma'ayan, Raviv Rachmiel, Ori Roth and Niv Shalmon, supervised by Prof. Yossi Gil and Dr. Adi Omari, and the Systems and Software Development Laboratory (SSDL)

"Image In-Painting" - Adar Elad and Yaniv Kerzhner, supervised by Yaniv Romano and the Geometric Image Processing Laboratory (GIP)

"Spartan" - Amir Kotzer and Itamar Raviv, supervised by Prof. Eli Biham and Assaf Rosenbaum

"User Recognition by Smartphone Activitiy" - Lior Cohen and Gilad Ezov, supervised by Prof. Shaul Markovitch and Amir Cohen.
 
A special diploma for Academic Excelling in 2017-18 was granted by CS to Dan Aharonson, Omer Alkabetz, Tal Alon, Antonio Abu Nassar, Or Goz, Barak Gur, Gilad Levy, Oren Milman, Adir Yarden.

Congratulations and best wishes to all our excellent students.

Pictures from the event.
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