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 […]

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 […]