Date:
February 2019
Home Address:
Partizanim 1, Rechovot, Israel
Personal Background:
Born on January 25, 1973 in Toronto, Canada. Moved to Israel in August, 1979. Married with five children: Yonatan, Moriah, Tal, Noa and Roei.
Education:
Tel-Aviv University, Israel:
Bachelor of Science in Physics Magna Cum Laude, 1995.
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Summa Cum Laude, 1996.
Master of Science equivalent in Electrical Engineering, 1995 - 1996.
Direct course towards Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, 1996.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA:
September 1998 - December 2001: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Thesis: "Quantum Signal Processing''
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Alan V. Oppenheim
Minor: Mathematics
Professional Experience:
March 2019 - Present: Professor in the Math and Computer Science Department, Weizmann Institute of Science.
January 2010 - February 2019: Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
2018-Present: Quest Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
2018-Present: Visiting Scientist at the Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.
2016 - Present: Adjunct Professor at Duke University, Durham, USA.
Summer 2017: Visiting Professor at Stanford University, California, USA.
Summer 2016: Visiting Professor at Duke University, Durham, USA.
Summer 2015: Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
August 2009 - 2014: Visiting Professor at the Statistics and Electrical Engineering Departments at Stanford.
Summer 2008: Visiting Professor at ETH, Zurich, Switzerland.
Summer 2007: Visiting Professor at the Statistics Department at Stanford, California, USA.
July 2002 - 2008: Research Affiliate with the Research Laboratory of Electronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
June 2005 - January 2010: Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
September 2002 - June 2005: Senior Lecturer in the Electrical Engineering Department at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
June 2002 - August 2002: Visiting Scientist at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
January 2002 - June 2002: Postdoctoral associate with the Digital Signal Processing Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
September 1998 - December 2001: Research associate with the Research Laboratory of Electronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
October 1996 - August 1998: Research associate with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tel-Aviv University.
Honors and Awards:
2018: Selected as one of 50 distinguished women scientists in Asia.
2018: 2018 Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate Analytics.
2017: Elected as a member of The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
2017: Elected an EURASIP Fellow, "For Groundbreaking Contributions to Sub-Nyquist and Compressed Sampling, Convex Optimization and Statistical Signal Processing”.
2016: Signal Processing Society Overview Paper Award (together with M. Duarte).
2016: IEEE IUS 2016 - Plane-Wave Imaging Challenge in Medical UltraSound (PICMUS) Award (awarded to undergraduate students Dan Cohen and Meged Shoham).
2016: The IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, "For Development of the Theory and Implementation of Sub-Nyquist Sampling with Applications to Radar, Communications and Ultrasound".
2015: Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (together with M. Mishali).
2015: The Hershel Rich Technion Innovation Award (for Sub-Nyquist ultrasound).
2015: The Henry Taub Prize for Academic Excellence.
2014: UFFC 2014 Outstanding Paper Award.
2014: SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize 2014.
2014: IEEE ICASSP Show and Tell Best Demo Award, for Sub-Nyquist Cognitive Radio System.
2014: IEEE ICASSP Show and Tell Best Demo Award, for Sub-Nyquist Radar Prototype System.
2014: IEEE/AESS Fred Nathanson Memorial Radar Award, "For Contribution to Sub-Nyquist Sampling Theory with Application to Radar and Array Processing".
2013: IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award, "For Fundamental Contributions to Sub-Nyquist and Compressed Sampling, Convex Optimization and Statistical Signal Processing".
2013: The Hershel Rich Innovation Award (for super-resolution in optical devices).
2013: Technion's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
2013: Edwards Chair in Engineering.
2012: Elected an IEEE Fellow, "For Contributions to Compressed Sampling, Generalized Sampling and Convex Optimization".
2012: Selected to the Young Israel Academy of Science.
2012: IET Circuits, Devices and Systems Premium Award.
2012: Selected to the Israel Committee for Higher Education (MALAG).
2012: Best Student Paper Award IEEE Conference on Signal Processing (awarded to Yuejie Chi; joint paper with R. Calderbank).
2012: Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer.
2011: Weizmann Prize for Exact Sciences.
2011: Selected as One of the 50 Most Influential Women in Israel.
2011: Best Student Poster Award SPIE Medical Imaging Conference (awarded to Noam Wagner; joint paper with A. Feuer and Z. Friedman).
2010: Google Research Faculty Award.
2010: Michael Bruno Memorial Award from the Rothschild Foundation.
2009: Technion's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
2008: The Hershel Rich Innovation Award (for Sub-Nyquist Wideband Sensing).
2008: Award for Women with Distinguished Contributions, Haifa Municipality.
2008: Muriel & David Jacknow Award for Excellence in Teaching.
2008: Technion Outstanding Lecture Award.
2008: Best Student Paper Award IEEE Israel (awarded to M. Mishali; joint paper with J. Tropp).
2007: The Henry Taub Prize for Excellence in Research.
2007: Young Author Best Paper Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (awarded to A. Wiesel; joint paper with S. Shamai).
2006: Reviewer Appreciation Award for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
2005: Andre and Bella Meyer Academic Lecturship.
2005: Best Student Paper Award IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC) (awarded to my student A. Wiesel; joint paper with S. Shamai).
2004: Wolf Foundation Krill Prize for Excellence in Research.
2003: Alon Fellow.
2002: Career Development Chair - Technion.
2002: Horev Fellow in the Leaders of Science and Technology Program at the Technion.
2000: IBM Research Fellowship.
1998: Walter A. Rosenblith Fellowship for Study in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.
1996: Admitted to the Direct Course towards a Ph.D. at Tel-Aviv University.
1993-1996: Cited on the Dean's List for Academic Achievement.
1995: Tel-Rad Scholarship.
Summer 1994: Selected to Participate in the De-Shalit Research Program at the Weizmann Institute and Elected an Outstanding Participant.
1992-1996: Stipend for Outstanding Students, Tel-Aviv University.
1992-1996: Special Honors Program for Outstanding Students, Under the Tutelage of Prof. Liebowitz in Tel-Aviv University.
Professional Activities:
Conference Chair:
Co-chair of the BIRS Workshop on Intersection of Information Theory and Signal Processing, 2018.
Co-chair of The Future of Signal Processing Symposium, Cambridge, MA, 2017.
Technical Co-Chair, International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications, 2013.
Tutorial Co-Chair, International Conference on on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2011.
Technical Co-Chair, International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications, 2011.
Organizing committee of the workshop Sparse Representations and Efficient Sensing of Data, Dagstuhl, 2011.
Chair of the Compressive Sampling track in the BIRS Sampling and Reconstruction workshop, 2010.
Organizing committee of the workshop on Applications of Optimization in Science and Engineering, IPAM, 2010.
Technical Co-Chair, International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications, 2009.
Co-chair of the IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing,(CAMSAP) 2009.
Technical Co-chair of the IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing,(CAMSAP) 2007.
Program Committee Member:
Steering Committee for the International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications, 2019.
Technical Program Committee, IEEE Data Science Workshop, 2018.
Technical Program Committee, IEEE Information Theory Workshop, 2018.
Steering Committee for the International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications, 2017.
Scientific Committee for CoSeRa 2015, Pisa, Italy.
Steering Committee for the International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications, 2015.
Technical Program Committee for Globecom 2014, Austin, USA.
Technical Program Committee for ITW 2013, Hobart, Tasmania.
Scientific Committee, Optimization and Statistics in Image Processing, Toulouse, 2013.
Technical Program Committee, The International Workshop on advances in Regularization, Optimization, Kernel methods and Support vector machines, 2013.
Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, 2013.
Technical Program Committee, International Symposium on Information Theory, 2012.
Technical Program Committee, Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, 2011.
Technical Program Committee, International Symposium on Information Theory, 2010.
Technical Program Committee, Ninth Asian Conference on Quantum Information Science, AQIS 2009.
Technical Program Committee, IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, 2009.
Scientific Committee, 1st IAPR Workshop on Cognitive Info. Processing, 2008.
Technical Program Committee, European Signal Processing Conference, 2008.
Technical Program Committee, International Symposium on Information Theory, 2008.
Technical Program Committee, European Signal Processing Conference, 2007.
Technical Program Committee, International Symposium on Information Theory, 2005.
Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, 2005.
Organizer of a panel: "Open Problems in Signal Processing", ICASSP 2018.
Organizer of a panel: "Open Problems in Signal Processing", ICASSP 2017.
Organizer of a special session: "Information-Theoretic Methods in Signal Acquisition, Analysis and Processing", ICASSP 2017.
Organizer of a special session: "Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio Systems", CAMSAP 2013.
Organizer of a special session: "Compressed Sensing", SampTA 2011.
Organizer of a special session: "Recent Advances in Sampling Theory: Applications to Imaging Systems," SIAM Conference on Imaging Science 2010.
Organizer of a special session: "Compressed Sensing", CAMSAP 2009.
Organizer of a special session: "Compressed Sensing", SampTA 2009.
Organizer of a special session: "Estimation and Detection", Asilomar 2006.
Organizer of a special session: "Convex Analysis Methods for Signal Processing", ICASSP 2006, Toulouse, France.
IEEE Committees:
AES Society Liaison for Women in Engineering Committee (WiEC), 2019-Present
IEEE Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee, 2019-Present.
IEEE Founders Medal Committee, 2018-Present.
Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society, 2019-2021.
IEEE Warren D. White Award Selection Committee, 2017-Present.
IEEE Noyce Medal Committee, 2016-Present.
IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award for Emerging Technologies Committee, 2015-Present.
IEEE Computational Imaging Special Interest Group, 2015-Present.
IEEE Nominations and Appointments Committee, 2014-2016.
IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical Committee, 2014-Present.
IEEE Big Data Special Interest Group, 2014-Present.
IEEE Bio Imaging and Signal Processing Technical Committe, 2009-2012.
IEEE Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee, 2005-2010.
Editor:
Editor-in-Chief of Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing, 2012-Present.
Senior Editorial Board of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 2015-Present.
Editorial board of Sampling Theory in Signal and Image Processing, 2013-Present.
Editorial board of Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing, 2007-2012.
Associate Editor for the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (SIIMS), 2009-2013.
Associate Editor for the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (SIMAX), 2007-2010.
Associate Editor for the EURASIP Journal on Signal Processing, 2006-2009.
Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2005-2009.
Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing special issue on “Information Theoretic Methods in Data Acquisition, Analysis, and Processing".
Guess Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control special issue on "Sparsity Driven Methods in Medical Ultrasound".
Guest Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine special issue on "Convex Optimization for Signal Processing".
Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing special issue on "Compressive Sensing ".
Guest Editor for the Hindawi Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking special issue on "Optimization Techniques in Wireless Communications".
Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing special issue on "Convex Optimization Methods for Signal Processing".
Guest Editor for the Journal of Applied Signal Processing special issue on "Frames and Overcomplete Representations in Signal Processing, Communications, and Information Theory".
Technion Committees:
TICC Technion Integrated Cancer Center Committee Member.
EE Department Faculty Web Design Committee Member.
EE Department Hiring Committee.
Head of the EE Department Committee for Women in Engineering. Organized an open day for female high-school students.
EE Department Graduate Studies Committee. Member of PhD student admission sub-committee.
EE Department Committee for termination of studies.
Member of the Technion Committee for Academic Degrees.
Member of the Technion Interdisciplinary Committee for Graduate Studies in Applied Mathematics.
Faculty representative on the Technion Board of Governors.
Other Committees:
Judge for the Blavatnik Awards in Israel, 2019-Present.
Advisory Committee for the Arxiv Electrical Engineering and Systems Science, 2018-Present.
Member of the Batsheva de Rothschild Fund Advisory Board, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2017-Present.
Head of the BSF Panel for Applied Mathematics, 2017.
Chair of the Committee for Evaluating Gender Equality Programs in Higher Education Institutions, 2017-Present.
Member of the Committee for Post-Doctoral Students of the Israel Academy of Science, 2015-Present.
Chair of the Judging Committee for Excelling Women Post-doctoral Students Scholarship Program of the Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC), 2015-Present.
Member of the Committee for making higher education accessible to Haredim, 2012-2015.
Member of the Israel Committee for Higher Education (MALAG), 2012-2015.
Chair of the High Committee for Certification, Recognition and Authorization.
Chair of Domain Names Committee.
Academic Policy Committee Member.
Member of Science, Engineering, Medicine and Architecture Committee.
Member of the Committee for Daylight Savings formed by the Minister of Interior, 2013.
Member of the Rothschild Fellowships Committee, 2011.
Research Interests:
My research interests include sampling methods and A/D design, compressed sensing,
detection and estimation theory, optimization for signal processing, medical imaging,
signal processing and optimization for communication systems, signal and image processing for optics,
deep learning and graphs, computational biology.
Teaching Experience:
Undergraduate Courses (044198) Introduction to Digital Signal Processing (046201) Introduction to Random Signal Processing and the Graduate Courses (049033) Generalized Sampling Methods (049029) Advanced Seminar In Signal Processing and Communications.
Invited Plenaries:
International Workshop on Compressed Sensing applied to Radar, Siegen, Germany, September 2018.
SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, Bologna, Italy, June 2018.
8th Microwave and Radar Week, Poznan, Poland, May, 2018.
22nd International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas, Bochum, Germany, March 2018.
Information Theory and Applications Workshop, San Diego, California, February 2018.
International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, Curacao, December 2017.
Operations Research Society of Israel, Naor Lecture, May 2017.
IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Cambridge, UK, September 2016.
Future Directions Workshop on Compressive Sensing and Sensing-Processing Integration, Duke USA, January 2016.
ICore meeting, Israel, November 2015.
Matheon Conference on Compressed Sensing and its Applications, Berlin, December 2015.
Signal Processing Workshop, Salt Lake City, August 2015.
International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications, Washington, May 2015.
European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Lisbon, Portugal, September 2014.
International Workshop on Compressed Sensing Applied to Radar, September 2013.
21st Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference 2013, Cyprus, April 2013.
Baseband to Microwave Technologies, Tel Aviv, January 2013.
Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, Ann Arbor, USA, August 2012.
International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Melbourne, July 2012.
IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, June 2012.
The Israel Machine Vision Conference, February 2012.
DSP Symposium, Tel Aviv, June 2011.
Sampling and Reconstruction: Applications and Advances, Banff, November 2010.
Research Association on Mathematical Programming, Tokyo, Japan, October 2008.
European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2008.
International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, Mexico, December 2005.
Invited Talks:
SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, Bologna, Italy, June 2018.
Image Science Gordon Research Conference, Boston USA, June 2018.
Technology Innovation 2018, Berlin, February 2018.
Final workshop, Jerusalem, Israel, November 2017.
German-Israeli Research Workshop on Optimization, Haifa, October 2017.
OSA Imaging and Applied Optics Congress, San Francisco, USA, June 2017.
Spatio-Temporal Control of Waves: From Imaging to Sensing 2017, Corsica, France, April 2017.
Workshop on the Interface of Statistics and Optimization, Duke, USA, February 2017.
Workshop in Memory of Prof. Uriel Rothblum, Technion, Israel, January 2017.
Continuous Optimization: Challenges and Applications, Haifa, Israel, September 2016.
London Workshop on Sparse Signal Processing, London, England, September 2016.
ECSEL JU Collaboration Program, March, 2016.
Future Directions Workshop on Compressive Sensing and Sensing-Processing Integration, Duke, USA, January 2016.
Radar Symposium, Ben Gurion University, January 2016.
DevelopEX2015, Tel Aviv, November 2015.
The 4th Duke University Workshop on Sensing and Analysis of High-Dimensional Data, Durham, July 2015.
The 3rd International Workshop on Mathematical Issues in Information Sciences (MIIS 2015), Xi'an, July 2014.
The 5th International Conference on Computational Harmonic Analysis (ICCHAV 2014), Nashville, May 2014.
Advanced Communications Center Annual Workshop and Feder Family Award Ceremony, Tel-Aviv, February 2014.
International Ultrasoinc Symposium, Prague, 2013.
International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications, 2013.
CIMI Workshop, Tolouse, 2013.
Statistics, Optimization, and Signal Processing, Darmstdat, 2013.
Mathematics and Image Analysis, Paris, January 2012.
Sparse and Low Rank Approximation, Banff, March 2011.
UCSD Information Theory and Applications Workshop, February 2011.
IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, 2010.
Compressed Sensing Track, BIRS 2010.
Applications of Optimization in Science and Engineering, IPAM, UCLA, 2010.
Sparsity and Computation, Bonn, Germany, June 2010.
UCSD Information Theory and Applications Workshop, February 2010.
Compressed Sensing Workshop, Duke, Durham USA, February 2009.
Dagstuhl Seminar on Structured Decompositions, Germany, Dec. 2008.
Conference on Mathematics in Signal Processing, Cambridge, England, Dec. 2008.
Panel on Convex Optimization in Signal Processing, ICASSP 2008.
International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, Virgin Islands, December 2007.
Workshop on Optimization and Signal Processing, Hong Kong, December 2007.
Minerva Optimization Center, Technion, Oct. 2007.
International Conference on Continuous Optimization, Ontario, Canada, August 2007.
UCSD Information Theory and Applications Workshop, January 2007.
21st European Conference on Operational Research , Iceland, July 2006.
International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, Mexico, December 2005.
Israel Statistical Association, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, May 2005.
Israel Physical Society Meeting, December 2004.
Conference in Honor of Asher Peres' 70th Birthday, February 2004.
ETH-Technion Meeting, Zurich, Switzerland, February 2004.
Zurich Communications Seminar, Zurich, Switzerland, February 2004.
Quantum Information Conference, QUBIT, April 2003.
HP-MIT Wireless Networking Initiative Kick-off, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 2002.
Invited Seminars:
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, November 2018.
Lincoln Laboratory, MIT, Lexington, MA, November 2018.
John-Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, November 2018.
NYU Tandon School of Engineering, New York, August 2018.
NYU School of Medicine, New York, August 2018.
MIT, Boston, August 2018.
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, August 2018.
Harvard University, Cambridge, August 2018.
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, August 2018.
Columbia University, New York, July 2018.
Bar-Ilan University, Israel, April 2018.
TWIM Distinguished Lecture Series, Tel-Aviv University, January 2018.
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, November 2017.
Princeton University, USA, October 2017.
Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, USA, September 2017.
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA, August 2017.
University of California Berkeley, California, USA, July 2017.
Weizmann Institute, Rechovot, Israel, March 2017.
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, October 2016.
Analog Devices, Boston, USA, January 2016.
Ben-Gurion University, Israel, December 2015.
Tel-Aviv University, Israel, November 2015.
University of Minnesota (UMN) July 2015.
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) July 2015.
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, July 2015.
Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), March 2015.
Qualcom, Feburary 2015.
Hebrew University, Feburary 2014.
Elta, Janurary 2014.
Supersonic Imagine, Aix-en-Provence, France, November 2013.
International Center of Mathematics and Information, Toulouse, June 2013.
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, April 2013.
General Electric, Israel, April 2013.
Applied Materials, January 2013.
Berkeley, California, August 2012.
University of Melbourne, Australia, July 2012.
Weizmann Institute, Rechovot, Israel, April 2012.
Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France, January 2012.
Elbit, Israel, January 2012.
Rafael, Israel, December 2011.
Sampling Theory and Appications, Singapore, May 2011.
University of California Berkeley, California, March 2011.
University of California, Los Angeles, California, December 2010.
Ericsson, San Jose, California, December 2010.
Elta Systems, Israel, October 2010.
Stanford University, California, October, 2010.
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, September 2010.
John-Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, September 2010.
General Electric Global Research Center, New York, September 2010.
Agilent, Santa Rosa, September 2010.
Google, Mountain View, California, July 2010.
Agilent, Santa Clara, California, June 2010.
Telegant Systems, Sunnyvale, California, May 2010.
Aquantia, Milpitas, California, May 2010.
University at Illinois of Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, April 2010.
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, March 2010.
Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas, March 2010.
University of California, Davis, California, February 2010.
Stanford University, California, January 2010.
Qualcomm, San Diego, California, January 2010.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, December 2009.
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, December 2009.
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, November 2009.
Rochester University, Rochester, New York, November 2009.
Columbia University, New York, November 2009.
Stanford University, California, October 2009.
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, October 2009.
University of California, Los Angeles, California, October 2009.
University of California Berkeley, California, September 2009.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, September 2009.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, September 2009.
HP Labs, Palo Alto, California, September 2009.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February, 2009.
Weizmann Institute, Israel, July 2008.
Hebrew University, Israel, June 2008.
Rice University, Houston, Texas, April 2008.
Tel-Aviv University, Israel, March 2008.
Hebrew University, Israel, February 2008.
Stanford University, California, July 2007.
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, April 2007.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, April 2007.
University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, January 2007.
University of California, Los Angeles, August 2006.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 2005.
Tel-Aviv University, Israel, January 2005.
University of Duisburg, Germany, August 2004.
Hebrew University, Israel, June 2004.
Operations Research Seminar, Technion, May 2004.
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, February 2004.
Technical University of Denmark, December 2003.
Hebrew University, Israel, June 2003.
Physics Seminar, Technion, April 2003.
Electrical Engineering Seminar, Technion, March 2003.
University of California Berkeley, California, April 2002.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, April 2002.
Stanford University, California, April 2002.
Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas, February 2002.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, August 2001.
Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, August 2001.
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, April 2001.
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, February 2001.
Distinguished Lectures for the IEEE Signal Processing Society:
Austin, Texas, December 2013.
Montreal, Canada, May 2013.
Vancouver, Canada, May 2013.
Toronto, Canada, April 2013.
Ottawa, Canada, April 2013.
Girne, Cyprus, April 2013.
Munich, Germany, January 2013.
Barcelona, Spain, January 2013.
Rome, Italy, January 2013.
Eilat, Israel, November 2012.
Syracuse University, New York, October 2012.
KTH, Sweden, September 2012.
Chalmers, Sweden, September 2012.
Santa Clara, California, July 2012.
Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, July 2012.
Melbourne, Australia, July 2012.
Thessaloniki, Greece, May 2012.
Bochum, Germany, May 2012.
Ecole Normale Supe'rieure de Cachan, France, January 2012.
Tutorials:
Recovering Lost Information in the Digital World, Harbin, China, July 2018.
Super-Resolution Imaging in Microscopy and Ultrasound, ICASSP 2018, Calgary, Canada.
Phase Retrieval:Theory, Algorithms and Applications, ICASSP 2016, Shanghai, China.
Phase Retrieval with Application to Optical Imaging, School of ICASSP 2015, Brisbane, Australia.
Compressed Sensing and Applications to Optical Imaging, FiO 2012, Rochester, USA.
Summer School on Compressive Sensing and MIMO Signal Processing, National Tsing Hua University 2012, Taiwan.
Sub-Nyquist Sampling: From Theory to Applications, ISIT 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Xampling: From Theory to Hardware of Sub-Nyquist Sampling, ICASSP 2011, Prague.
Structured Compressed Sensing: From Theory to Applications, ISBI 2011, Chicago, USA.
Beyond Bandlimited Sampling: Nonideal Sampling, Smoothness and Sparsity, ICASSP 2009, Taiwan.
Improving on Maximum Likelihood Estimation: New Tools For Old Problems, ICASSP 2007, Hawaii.
Numerical Optimization Methods for Robust Parameter Estimation, EUSIPCO 2006, Florence, Italy.
Working Experience:
Scopio, Israel, 2015-Present. Consulting services in the field of optical imaging and phase retrieval.
Intel, Israel, 2013. Consulting services in the field of signal processing and communications.
Elbit, Israel, 2011-2014. Consulting services in the field of sampling and communications.
Texas Instruments, Israel, 2009. Consulting services in the field of sampling.
Refael, Israel, 2008-2009. Consulting services in the field of estimation and sampling.
Lenslet, Israel, 2004 - 2006. Consulting services in the field of signal processing.
Motorola Communications Inc, Israel, 1997 - 1998. Consulting services in the fields of communications and audio processing.
ComWiz Communications, Israel, 1996.
Technical Advisory Boards:
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Grants:
Chief Scientist Office - "Creating a machine learning based diagnosis-support system to detect and diagnose benign or malignant tumors in pediatric X-rays", (2019-2021), (Total: 300,000₪).
ISF - Israel Science Foundation - "Analog-to-Digital Compression", (1.10.2018-30.9.2022), (Total: 1,120,000₪).
U.S. Air Force - "Signal Processing and Compressed Sensing Tools to Enable Radar", (18.5.18-17.5.19), (Total: 50,000$).
The Lokey Center, Technion - "Deploying Machine Learning on Fetal Echogenicity US Imaging to Allow Decision Support System for Clinicians", (1.5.2018-30.4.2020), (Total: 25,000$).
MAFAT - "Advanced Signal Processing for Metamaterials Based Radar", (1.8.2017-31.7.2018), (Total: 39,602$).
MAFAT - "Parameter Estimation of Multiband Signals from Sub-Nyquist Samples and High Spatial Resolution Radar", (1.9.2016-1.9.2017), (Total: 170,940₪).
Magneton - "Discovery Objectives Slow Cognitive Foliage Penetrating Radar", (1.8.2016-1.8.2017), (Total: 398,260 ₪).
Royal Society Grant - "Information-Theoretic Foundations of Data Processing: A Rate-Distortion Approach", with Prof. Miguel Rodrigues, (01.09.2016-31.08.2018), (Total: £12,000).
NSF-BSF ECCG - "Sensing and Estimation under Energy and Communication Constraints", with Prof. Andrea Goldsmith, (01.10.2016-30.09.2019), (Total: 150,000$).
Security Fund - "Reception and Recovery of Sparse Signals Over a Wideband Spectrum", (2016), (Total: 70,000₪).
The ICT Call 2015 - Vienna Science Fund - "Communication and Complexity Constrained Inference over Graphs for Big Data," (2015-2019). Joint project with A. Jung and Prof. Matz (VUT), (Total: 500,000€).
ERC Consolidator Grant – “Breaking the Nyquist Barrier: A New Paradigm in Data Conversion and Transmission,” (2015-2020),(Total: 2,400,000€).
ISF - Israel Science Foundation - "Phase Retrieval: Theory, Methods and Applications to Optical Imaging ", (2014-2018), (Total: 1,000,000₪).
ISF I-CORE, "Structure-Based Information Optics", research center comprised of researchers from the Technion and Weizmann, (2013-2018), (Total:49,000,000₪).
Rafael research fund, "Nonunifrom sampling for medical imaging ", (2013-2015), (Total: 190,000₪).
General Motors research fund, "Ubiquitous Sensing With Vehicle Networks ", with Prof. Idit Keidar (2013-2015), (Total: 63,000$).
Magneton, "Ultrafast High Resolution Ultrasonic Imaging", (2013-2014), (Total: 1,698,000₪).
Magnet Metro450, "Fast and efficient defect detection", (2012-2014), (Total: 472,676₪).
Semiconductor Research Corporation- Global Research Collaboration, "Frequency Shapeable Multichannel ADCs", (2012-2015), (Total:225,000$).
Technion-Cornell joint research fund - "NeuroPICU Dashboard: Joint Development of a Neurology Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Multimodal Monitor", with Prof. Hillel Pratt and Daniel Gopher, (2012-2013), (Total:30,000$).
Technion-Cornell joint research fund - "Intelligent Energy Management for Built Environments", with Prof. Lang Tong, (2012-2013), (Total:30,000$).
Intel University Industry Research Corporation - "Brain-Inspired Sparse Representation for Object Detection ", with Profs. Yair Weiss, Daphna Weinshall and Ron Meir, (2012-2013), (Total: 40,000$).
Program for Transformative Science - "Defying Nyquist in Wireless Networks", with Prof. Andrea Goldsmith, (2011-2014), (Total: 300,000$).
Google Research Award - "Semi-supervised regression with auxiliary knowledge", (2010), (Total: 45,000$). BSF
ISF - Israel Science Foundation - "Wideband Low-Rate Converters: Compressed Sensing of Analog Signals",(2010-2014), (Total: 960,000₪).
Michael Bruno Memorial Award - (1.10.2010-30.9.2013), (Total: 120,000$).
CIS Seed Research Grant - "Sub-Nyquist Sampling to Enable New Paradigms in Wireless Network Design," with Prof. Andrea Goldsmith (1.7.2010-30.6.2011), (Total: 60,000$).
TASP - "Automatic Parameter Tuning For Inverse Problems, With Application to Automatic Visual Systems", (1.9.2009-31.8.2009), (Total: 30,000$).
ISF - Israel Science Foundation - "Dynamic spike train decoding and multisensory integration by biological neural networks", (2008-2011), (Total: 540,000₪).
MAGNET GE - "Multi Channel Beamformer for Hand Carried Premium Performance Echocardiography",(1/9/08-1/9/09), (Total: 1,825,200₪).
RBNI- Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute - "Utilization of Quantum Dots for Tracking Human Embryonic Stem Cells Derived Cardiomyocytes Transplanted Into the Infracted Myocardium in Rats", (1.07.08-30.09.09), (Total: 40,000$).
NEWCOM++ - Network of Excellence in Wireless Communications(1/1/08-1/1/11), (Total: 327,627 EUR).
Elias Fund for Medical Research - "Changes Caused by Biomechanical Forces to the Heart Cells",(1/8/07-31/1/08), (Total: $10,000).
ISF - Israel Science Foundation - "Multi-Element Communications under Uncertainty Conditions: An Information Theoretic and Signal Processing Interplay", (2007-2011), (Total: 300,000$).
MAFAT - Ministry of Defense, "Optical Sampling of Several Band-Limited Signals",(1/8/05-31/10/06), (Total: 256,410 ₪).
MAFAT - Ministry of Defense, "Optical Quantum Communication",(1/11/04-1/8/07), (Total: 350,265₪).
ISF - Israel Science Foundation, "Least-Squares Inner Product Shaping: Theory and Applications to Communications Systems", (1/10/04-30/9/07), (Total: 540,000₪).
NEWCOM - Network of Excellence in Wireless Communications, (1/3/04-31/12/06), (98,072 EUR).
HASSIP - Harmonic Analysis and Statistics for Signal and Image Processing,(1/10/02-30/9/06), (Total: 929,678 EUR).
