Efrat Shema-Yaacoby is a Fulbright Scholar doing postdoctoral research in Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, in the lab of Dr. Bradley Bernstein. Research topic: analysis of combinatorial epigenetic modifications in cancer.

Efrat Mashiach, a computer scientist and software engineer at Google, received her PhD from Tel Aviv University in 2013. Her thesis, “Structural Bioinformatics: Flexible Molecular Docking,” was written under the supervision of Prof. Haim Wolfson and Prof. Ruth Nussinov. The new methods that Efrat developed, designed and programmed (C++) for computational prediction of protein complexes […]

Biosketch Avital Adler is a postdoctoral fellow specializing in neuro-computation in the Molecular Neurobiology Program and the Department of Physiology and Neuroscience  at the Skirball Institute, NYU School of Medicine. Her research focuses on the role of inhibition in experience-dependent synaptic plasticity Avital received her Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2013. Her […]

Eran Small is a physicist and Project Leader at The Samsung Electronics Medical Lab. He received his PhD in 2013 from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. His thesis, “Statistical Properties of Light Propagating in Non-Linear Systems”, was written under the supervision of Prof. Yaron Silberberg as part of the Ultrafast Optics Group in […]

Tal Lev-Ami is a computer scientist, co-founder and CTO of Cloudinary, a cloud-based image management system. Tal received his PhD from Tel-Aviv University in 2009, under the supervision of Prof. Shmuel Sagiv. His PhD research, “Efficient Transformers for the Verification of Heap Manipulating Programs”, explored the problem of automatically verifying computer programs operating on the […]

Nathan Keller is a professor in the Mathematics Department at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel. His current research focuses on probabilistic combinatorics, the application of analytical tools to combinatorics and in particular the influences of variables on functions in product spaces. His secondary interest lies in cryptography, specifically cryptanalysis. Nathan received his PhD from […]

Yael Eshed-Eisenbach is a biologist, currently working as a staff scientist in the Weizmann Institute of Science Department of Molecular Cell Biology in Prof. Elior Peles’ laboratory. Yael received her PhD in 2009. Her thesis, “Mechanisms of Node of Ranvier Formation”, was written under the supervision of Prof. Elior Peles, and won the J.F. Kennedy […]

Noam Stern-Ginossar is an immunologist and molecular geneticist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Her research focuses on profiling viral infections, and she is the Principle Investigator in a lab within the Department of Molecular Genetics, which aims to elucidate the complex cellular changes that occur during encounters between viruses and human cells. Her lab […]

Ofer Shayevitz is a senior lecturer (assistant professor) at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Tel Aviv University, a position he has held since 2013. His main research interests are in the areas of information theory, communication, distributed computation, as well as statistical signal processing. His specific interests include interactive communication in noisy channels, […]

Ariel Procaccia is a computer scientist and an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his PhD in computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2009, his thesis “Computational Voting Theory” was written under the supervision of Prof. Jeffrey S. Rosenschein. Ariel usually works on problems at […]