Olga Khersonsky is a biological chemist primarily interested in enzymology, directed evolution, computational design and synthetic biology. She is currently a senior intern at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, working in Dr. Sarel Fleishman’s lab. Olga was awarded her PhD in 2009 by the Weizmann Institute of Science. Her thesis, “Mechanistic Enzymology – From […]

Dan Hermelin is currently a senior academic staff member at the Industrial Engineering and Management Department at Ben-Gurion University, a position he has held since October 2013. His primary research focuses on designing and analyzing combinational algorithms for computational problems that have real-world applications, as in computational biology. This includes designing fixed-parameter and approximation algorithms […]

Amir Goren is a clinical field specialist at St. Jude Medical, a global medical device manufacturer in St. Paul, Minn, dedicated to transforming the treatment of some of the world’s most expensive, epidemic diseases and a product manager at Medogar Medical Equipment, Ra’anana. Amir received his PhD from Tel-Aviv University’s Department of Human Genetics and […]

Chen Davidovich is a Chemist and Senior Research Fellow, EMBL Australia Group Leader at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Monash University. His lab  seeks to understand, down to atomic resolution, how PcG proteins’ function is modulated by their environment and their various binding partners. Prior to this Chen was a postdoctoral […]

Avraham Ben-Aroya is a computer scientist. His general interest is in theoretical computer science and his research focuses on quantum computation quantum information and pseudorandomness. Avraham completed his PhD in Tel-Aviv University under the supervision of Prof. Oded Regev and Prof. Amnon Ta-Shma. His thesis, “Quantum Computation and Quantum Information”, explored the power of computing devices […]

Reut Shema is a neurobiologist and postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Reut has been working in the Heiman Lab since the fall of 2012. She is studying the mechanistic basis of neuronal longevity and aging, and how they interact with neurodegenerative disease mechanisms, specifically in the context of Huntington’s disease. She […]

Michael Orlov is a computer scientist and lecturer, serving as Head of the Cyber Operations Program in the Department of Software Engineering at the Sami Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel. His research focuses on evolutionary computation, an interdisciplinary field based in both biology and physics. In his work, Michael researches ways to automatically improve software […]

Amir Ingber is an electrical engineer and senior research scientist at Yahoo! His research is primarily focused on information theory, digital communication, signal processing and image processing Before joining the private sector, Amir was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and received a PhD from Tel-Aviv University. His thesis “Coding Methods and Bounds for the […]

Ishay Haviv is a computer scientist and faculty member at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo. His research interests are theoretical computer science, computational complexity, lattices, hardness of approximation, coding theory and combinatorics. Ishay received his PhD from Tel Aviv University. His thesis “Combinatorics and Theoretical Aspects of Computer Sciences; Complexity of Lattice Problems” was […]

Moshe Mishali is an electrical engineer and chip architect at EZchip Technologies. He is primarily interested in sampling theory, compressed sensing information theory and analog circuits. Moshe received his Ph.D. from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 2011. His dissertation, “Sampling and Processing of Structured Signals at Sub Nyquist Rates,” written under the […]