Degrees
- 1994-1997
- D.Sc. in Electrical Engineering – The Technion – Haifa - Israel.
Graduated on September 1997. Final average - 96.6/100.
Specialization on: Signal and Image Processing, Computer Vision, Adaptive filters.
Thesis: Super resolution Reconstruction of Continuous Image Sequence.
Supervisor: Prof. Arie Feuer. - 1986-1988
- M.Sc . in Electrical Engineering – The Technion – Haifa - Israel.
Graduated on February 1988. Final average - 95.0/100.
Specialization on: Signal and Image Processing, Communication.
Thesis: Digital Coding of Image Sequences with Motion Compensation.
Supervisor: Prof. David Malah. - 1982-1986
- B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering – The Technion – Haifa – Israel .
Graduated on February 1986. Final average - 91.6/100.
Specialization on: Communication, Control, Networks and Computers.
Professional Experience
- 2010 (July) - Now
- Faculty – Professor at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
- 2007-2010
- Faculty – Associate Professor (tenured) at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
- 2003-2007
- Faculty – Senior Lecturer at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
- 2001-2003
- Research Associate with the Computer Science Department (SCCM) of Stanford University.
- 2000-2001
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Head of research division - data compression, image and video coding - Jigami , Israel .
- 1997-2001
- Lecturer - The Electrical Engineering
Department - Technion.
Courses: Computational methods in Optimization, Image Analysis and Processing. "Best lecturer" award twice (years 2000 & 2001).
(in parallel to the above activities) - 1997-2000
- Researcher, HP-Laboratories, Israel. R&D in the fields of image processing, computer vision and pattern recognition.
- 1993
- Defined a system in the fields of Geographical Information
Systems (GIS) and Photogrametry. Advanced Technologies Limited (ATL) – Atidim , Tel-Aviv. - 1988-1993
- Military service – Israeli Air Force.
Grants
- 2009-2012
- European Commission, FP7, FET program: SMALL project - Sparse Models and Dictionary Learning, Joint with Remi Gribonval (INRIA-France), Pierre Vandergheynst (EPFL-Swiss), Mark Plumbley (QMUL-UK), and Mike Davies (UDIN-UK).
- 2008-2012
- Israel Science Foundation Grant (ISF): Novel Super-Resolution Reconstruction Algorithms with no Explicit Motion-Estimation.
- 2008-2012
- Israel Science Foundation Grant (ISF): Auditory Computer-Vision, Joint with Y.Y. Schechner.
- 2008-2011
- Gurwin Grant: Topics in Tomography.
- 2007-2008
- Center for The Security Science and Technology, Technion, Joint with R. Kimmel.
- 2005-2008
- Israel Science Foundation Grant (ISF): Sparsity and redundancy in signal representation - design of optimal transforms, Joint with A.M. Bruckstein.
- 2005
- ISF New Faculty Equipment Support Grant : for equipping a signal/image processing lab.
- 2005-2009
- USA-Israel Bi-national Science Foundation Grant: Analysis versus synthesis approaches in signal-priors for the solution of inverse problems, Joint with D.L. Donoho and P. Milanfar.
- 2004-2007
- MAGNET (AVNET 37): 3D face recognition algorithms, Joint with R. Kimmel
- 2007-2009
- MAGNET (BMP): Bio-Medical Photonics, Joint with R. Kimmel
Public Professional Activities
Review work
IEEE Trans. On Image Processing, IEEE Trans. On Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), IEEE Trans. On Information Theory, Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, Journal of the Optical Society of America (JOSA), EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, SIAM Review, SIMAX, SIIMS, International Journal of Computer Vision, Signal Processing: Image communication, ISF and NSF proposals.
- Editorial work
Associate editor of SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences
Associate editor of IEEE Transacations on Information Theory
Honors
- 2012
- IEEE Fellow: Elevated for contributions to sparsity-and-redundancy in image processing.
- 2010
- The Hershel-Rich Award for Innovation: A Technion award for the work on Super-Resolution (with Matan Protter).
- 2009
- Best lecturer award: For the course "Advanced Topics in image Processing - Sparse Representations ", taught in the CS-department, the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- 2008
- Elected to the grade of IEEE Senior Member: in recoignition of the professional standing.
- The Henry Taub Prize for Academic Excellence: A Technion award for research excellence.
- 2007
- The Solomon Simon Mani award for excellence in teaching: one of 6 chosen faculty at the Technion, awarded for their excellence in teaching.
- 2006
- Best reviewer award: one of 10 chosen reviewers of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing journal
- 2005
- Best lecturer award: For the course "mathematical Methods for Computer Applications", taught in the CS-department, the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- 2004
- Best lecturer award: For the course "Digital Processing of Signals and Images", taught in the CS-department, the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- 2003
- CDC: Technion Management Career Development Chair (CDC) – The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
- 2001
- Best lecturer award: For the course "Image Analysis and Processing", taught in the EE-department, the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
- 2000
- Best lecturer award: For the course "Methods in Numerical Optimization", taught in the EE-department, the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.
- 1996
- Guthwirth award: Special Excellence Scholarship – During the Ph.D. studies.
- 1987
- Wiener excellence award: Special Excellence Scholarship – During the M.Sc. studies.
- 1985
- ITT award: Special Excellence Scholarship – During the undergraduate studies.